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Dad shut himself in his bunker at the beginning of 2020.

He said the world was about to end, and when we didn't believe him,

he told us the wake-up.

He was raining that day.

I remember focusing on the water hitting the window-pains

on my sister trying to change dad's mind.

I knew it was no use.

He was too stubborn to listen to anyone except Trump,

who had just declared that COVID-19 had pushed the world into a pandemic.

Dad wanted us to join him, and when we told him no,

he called us brainwashed.

He purchased land before I was born, only because of the dilapidated military facility

that came with it.

It was abandoned sometime in the 60s, I think.

My sister was there from the beginning, even before Dad's obsession pushed mom away.

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