"Sure, we'd faced some things as children that a lot of kids don't. Sure, Justin had qualified for his Junior de Sade Badge in his teaching methods for...

Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.
~ Jim Butcher ~












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