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> inspired bad parenting 19:35 SAT JP TSUSHIMA RESIDENCE Balloons choked the walls, tight and suffocating. Relatives pushed past Shuji, ignoring his worn, pale blue pajamas. Laughter erupted around a table where Taiji stood, smug and bright. A choir of voices sang, colliding in silly harmony. The cake bore the number ten, the name Taiji in tragic blue. The parents smiled with hollow pride. No one cared that Taiji’s birthday was celebrated a day early—June nineteenth, not twentieth. Today wasn’t Taiji’s true birthday, but the deception continued, as it did every year. Shuji watched from the shadows, eyes hollow with dissociation. He faded like rot under a vulture’s gaze. Today was his seventh birthday. Yet he remained silent, grateful only that the celebration existed, even if no…