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The light outside the living room window is beginning to fade.

You can see the last hint of sunset casting a soft orange glow on the house across the street.

In the distance, the sky is a prairie rose pink with feathery white clouds that slowly meander

above the horizon. You take a deep breath in, hold it for just a moment, and then release.

Feeling a wave of calm wash over you. Inside the house, the shadows are long,

but you find your eyes have already begun to adjust to the dim light of dusk that is permeating the

room. The colours of the sofa and chairs are now muted and the wood of the table

is more grey than brown. The details of the room are softer than usual, such that the lines and

edges have started to blur. Although the sun is still setting outside, you can feel that night is

already on its way here within these walls. Looking up, the back of a chair casts a shadow

that stretches across the ceiling. You follow it down to the chair itself and the little nightlight

that has flickered on behind it. The tiny bowl is attached to a socket at ankle height.

It now reflects a subtle blue over the floor. At the edge of your vision, you see the bookcase

against the back wall. Rose and rose of brightly coloured books look softer now in this gentle light.

Their spines appear like vertical lines in an abstract painting. uneven edges and different heights

stand side by side on the long horizontal lines of the shelves. On top of the bookcase sits the

potted plant with curling leafy tendrils that hang down below the highest shelf. In the daylight,

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