"The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how filled with grief or pain or fear, time flows through ...
I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it.
~ Orson Scott Card ~
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I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it.
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