[ WP ] The entirety of humanity becomes caught in a shared `` Groundhog Day '' style time loop . Millions of cycles later the effect wears off but what has become of humanity in the interim ?

I remember it well. The first time it happened. Everyone was confused - and why would n't they be? Such an unbelievable event to occur in real life, usually restricted to just movies and fantasies. 
 
 For the entire universe hiccuped, repeating itself over again. 
 
 Married men woke up once again with their mistresses, vacation days were relived, second chances were had by 7.4 billion people... and it seemed like a good thing. 
 
 But that notion was not to last. 
 
 New mothers gave birth... screaming in agony day after day after day. Eventually, they asked the doctors to simply put them under full anesthesia every midnight, killing their child. What did it matter? It would all reverse in 24 hours... 
 
 Those in prison went mad, their existences and hopes for freedom crushed even smaller than the speck of light it once was, for it was now eternal. 
 
 And worst of all? 
 
 I do it every day. Assure him it's all right. But it's not all right, and I am not all right. 
 
 He's not all right. 
 
 Every day... 
 
 I watch my son die. 
 
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