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Why I Didn’t Shower For 21 Years
I have nightmares where I’m trapped in a shower. The drain is plugged, and the the water won’t stop pouring down on me. Water rises to my ankles, to my waist, and then over my head. The shower curtain turns to glass, and my screams turn to gargles. A dark figure presses its face against the glass on the other side, and it watches me. I plead, but it won’t let me out. I swallow water and flail helplessly in my glass coffin. I wake up gagging. I know where the nightmare came from – I never have to dig deep. The incident is never far from my subconscious. Finding it is easy. Getting over it is not. It was…