#35 Countdown
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Tongue dry, scrapping across even drier lips. An audible rasping sound.
11:56
Every night, the same ritual. Five minutes of preparation.
For years the fear was with him all day.
11:57
Years of therapy and CBT had reduced the life of fear and paranoia to the last five minutes of the day.
11:58
At first it was a day’s fear condensed into five minutes. As time passed he worked harder to take out the fear and just make this a time or readying.
11:59
The last minute though, that was still pure unadulterated terror
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