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The Room of Truth
In LALATOWN, there’s a room that never asks you to come in. It simply waits.
The door is always half-open, as if it already knows you have something to say.
Inside, there are no chairs and no tables. There is only a tree that pours tea, a moon where rabbits pound rice cakes through the night, and a mirror that sees the things we cannot always put into words.
People come here carrying truths of all sizes.
Some arrive with grand confessions.
Others arrive with something as small as:
“My sister-in-law asked what I thought of her haircut.”
“I said, ‘It’s okay.’”
That was the whole truth.
The room nodded, as if “okay” were a sacred unit of measurement.
A small child once wandered in and said:
“When my mom told me she was the same age as Auntie Bora, I asked her, ‘Then why do you look like THIS?’”
The room hummed.
Everyone agreed this was an acceptable truth for someone under ten.
The mirror is the most unusual part.
People stand before it and leave behind the truths they cannot explain.
The ones that arrive too early.
The ones that are too awkward.
The ones that are too honest.
A child may not have the words for them.
An adult may not have the courage.
But the mirror understands.
Some say the truths dissolve into the walls.
Others believe they settle into the roots of the tree, where they are steeped into tea and shared with the moonlit rabbits.
Frankie, the lawmaker, once claimed the Room of Truth followed him across a lake while he sailed in a teacup.
Whether it floated, walked, or simply listened from afar, no one can say.
All anyone knows is this:
The Room of Truth never judges.
It simply keeps a place for the truths you are not ready to carry anymore.
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