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They moved out before garbage collection day, hoping to avoid another fine stacked atop the broken lease, the lost deposit, the month's rent half-wasted...

Tiny debts, each magnified and made more impossible by a greater loss.

Old clothes, soft on your hands from repeated washings and cheap detergents. Plastic toys, delight outgrown.

Three people lived here: two adults, a child approaching adolescence.

A woman leans out the open window, shivering in the cool evening air. She tries not to blink. They've had to pack so quickly, this is the first chance she's had to try to memorise the view she's mostly ignored for the last six years.

In the end, the outcome was the same: a flurry of packing, a quick shuffle of locks and keys in the dark.

It all happened very quickly, once they'd made the decision to leave. In that moment, the priorities seemed clear.

Approximately 25 items are missing from the count of Operant CASCADE's possessions following her extradition from Portofiro in 91. Due to failure to keep up with requests for a formal inventory, the exact number of CASCADE's lost / forsaken belongings remains officially unknown.

They knew they weren't getting the deposit back. Why bother.

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