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A Hiroshima verbally untold
August 7, 2025September 17, 2025

Hiroshima and Nagaski are the products of a hearing, audist society. People who can’t communicate and instead prefer to stand their stealth through the language of weaponry of untold strength. Speech is nothing but temporal…

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