Inside the meticulously organized folders, each labeled with a date, I discovered images that shattered any illusion I had left about the man I once loved. Faces of other women stared back at me from the screen, their eyes closed in forced repose, just like mine in his recent photos. Some of them I recognized from our neighborhood or social gatherings—women who I’d exchanged pleasantries with, never suspecting the horror they too had endured.
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