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the story is about a man WILL ATENTON but the real name was PETER WARD in a specific event was trying to help his family deplorably peter's wife who had been shot accidentally shot him in the head reason why he remembers nothing. After five years, surviving and accused for murdering his family, the psychiatric doctor in the clinical Greenhaven base on no evidence released him. He returned in the house were the family was killed to find the truth. Even thought with hallucination he sees his family ghost, and there every single thought, actions, dreams, and help by a neighbor across the street who was his wife best friend gonna put him in the reality the family doesn't exist anymore and his sick. When he finally understood or accepted the reality;

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