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𝐌𝐔𝐓𝐔𝐓𝐀𝐋 𝐎𝐍𝐋𝐘 𝐑𝐎𝐋𝐄𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐘 𝐁𝐋𝐎𝐆. 𝗦𝗔𝗠 𝗛𝗜𝗚𝗚𝗦 𝗢𝗙 𝗗𝗢𝗡𝗧𝗡𝗢𝗗'𝗦 𝗧𝗪𝗜𝗡 𝗠𝗜𝗥𝗥𝗢𝗥. 21+ –––––––––––––– 𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐍𝐆 𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐃𝐄𝐏𝐈𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐋 𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐒. –––––––––––––– 𝐒𝐀𝐌 𝐈𝐒 𝐀 𝐉𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐍𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓 𝐁𝐎𝐑𝐍 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐌𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐖𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝐕𝐈𝐑𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐓𝐎𝐖𝐍 𝐎𝐅 𝐁𝐀𝐒𝐒𝐖𝐎𝐎𝐃.
𝗔𝗦 𝗔 𝗞𝗜𝗗, he struggled with sociability, anxiety & expressing emotions. something that would only get worse & carry over into his adult life. to cope with frightening & overwhelming situations & a lack of friends, he manifested an ‘ imaginary friend ’ or DOUBLE. a personality who could be emotional, give him advice, be sociable & most of all supportive. 𝐇𝐄 𝐇𝐀𝐒 𝐍𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐆𝐑𝐎𝐖𝐍 𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐃𝐎𝐔𝐁𝐋𝐄. & 𝗛𝗔𝗦 𝗡𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗙𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗗 𝗜𝗡 𝗔𝗡𝗬𝗢𝗡𝗘 𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗜𝗧. sam is often vacant & lives the majority of the time inside his own head, a place he calls ‘ the mind palace ’ he sees the world as dark & his head, peaceful. he also always showed signs of DEPRESSION but this escalated once he left basswood. 𝐀 𝐁𝐈𝐆 𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘 𝐈𝐍 𝐁𝐀𝐒𝐒𝐖𝐎𝐎𝐃. when his girlfriend’s father, a miner, was injured & left permanently disabled, sam began questioning the safety of the town’s mine & if regulations were being followed. the mine was one of the main source of the town’s employment and income. when he realized that they were not following regulations, he wrote an article on it. the mine was closed as a result & many residents of the town lost their jobs. after the intense animosity toward him from everyone in town & a failed proposal to his girlfriend, anna, he left town. ( leaving behind his best friend nick, his goddaughter joan & anna. ) 𝐓𝐖𝐎 𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐒 𝐋𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐑; he is told that his best friend nick has been killed in a car accident. he returns to basswood for the funeral, but misses it & only attends the wake. he is approached by his god - daughter, joan, who asks him to investigate her father’s death because of its suspicious nature. sam reluctantly agrees. he finds out more than he intends to.












