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Come celebrate with me that every day something has tried to kill me and has failed.


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You might as well answer the door, my child, the truth is furiously knocking.



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they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and I keep on remembering mine



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Even when the universe made it quite clear to me that I was mistaken in my certainties ... I did not break. The shattering of my sureties did not shatter me.



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