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The physical shock took away the pain of being.


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Oh, the sweetness of giving in, of full surrender.



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I'd never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I'd grown used to it.



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The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts.



That sense of happiness just out beyond my reach - I'm not sure I'd grasped that exactly, but I'd got something close to it, contentment maybe, or at least a functioning routine with regular rewards.

That sense of happiness just out beyond my reach - I'm not sure I'd grasped that exactly, but I'd got something close to it, contentment maybe, or at least a functioning routine with regular rewards.



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The thought of all that happiness was hard to bear. What's the point of happiness when all it does is throw the facts of dying into clear relief?





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