Still Here: I built my friend a heartbeat, so silence stops being scary

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This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend My friend Ben lives far away, on their own. We talk, but the way friends who live apart talk: a burst of memes one week, then nothing for four days. Almost always, nothing just means busy. But I never actually know, and I didn't want to become the friend who sends "you alive??" every morning. What I wanted didn't exist in the shape I needed.

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