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If she's in pain now she doesn't show it; she just closes her eyes and surrenders, and that is worse than her screaming for help, somehow.

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Stupid. Why do people want to pretendthat death is sleep? It isn’t. It isn’t

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If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.

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(...) I do want to leave, in the desperate way that an animal wants to escape a trap. Wild and rabid. Ready to gnaw through bone.

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But I know that for every good thing that comes along, there is always a cost.

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I have a scar-a faint gouge in my knee from when I fell down on the sidewalk as a child. It's always seemed stupid to me that none of the pain I've ex...more