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Pandemic Diary: How to escape in the dark

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Pandemic Diary: How to escape in the dark

Twelve steps

Amy Oscar
Nov 12, 2020
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Pandemic Diary: How to escape in the dark

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Step one:

Study your captor, your gatekeeper - the one who patrols the edges of your freedom. Pay attention. Learn how the prison guard thinks.

Step two:

Forget the prison guard. You don't need the prison guard. Fuck the prison guard. He is not real - that was never what kept you stuck in the tower/the castle/the marriage/the dead end job.

Step three:

Walk o…

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