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Flash. Ten-year-old Rin, lying terrified in the darkness, listening to see if her twin brother, Len, was breathing. He had walked in, crying, fresh bandages covering what would surely become new scars joining the criss-cross of the ones that were already there from the beatings he received on a near daily basis. Rin is sure that one day, Len will die. So she listens every night to hear if he's breathing before she goes to sleep.    He is.    She breathes out with him and breathes in with him, calming herself down. She feels safer in the daylight, more confident. Because it's daylight when people can see what happens. It's daylight when t