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Show, not tell, right? Action, not words. You don’t want to hear how sorry I am or how things will be different this time. You want to see it with your own eyes. And until I can show you that, you won’t tell me what I want to hear.
Ann Aguirre
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Ann Aguirre
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 27
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the United States of America
Ellen Connor
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His face held a certain impassivity you see it in all waiters and valets. They might want to jam a knife through your left eye socket, but you'd never know it from their expression. Working retail, I've acquired a similar look myself.
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This is the way we win over our enemies, not with bigger weapons, or faster ships, but with human courage, ingenuity, and sacrifice. Don't lose hope. We've faced the darkness before-it has nothing new to teach us. As we go about our lives, let us remember the example Dr. Navarro set for us. At the right time, anyone can be a hero.
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For I need this scar over my heart to remind me. Crazy as it sounds, if I can bear the wound on my body, it lessens what I must carry on my soul. How he knew that about me, I cannot fathom.
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If you don't tell me what's on your mind, I can't guess
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My body was a machine, plain and simple. I worked it to stay strong I fed it to keep it running.
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A huntress never stabbed anything she didn't want to.
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But it was like a dance across a field strewn with razors, and I bled with every step I took.
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Most people can’t stomach silence it provides too much opportunity to think about things they prefer to avoid.
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Men can be very stupid. We cease to value what we have until it's gone, and only then do we realize the gold we glimpsed in distant hills pales as dross compared to treasure we had in hand.
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But I miss the woman I was, even as I learn to accept the new creature I’ve become.
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With my partner beside me, I fear nothing, not even death.
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Like most, I was a mix of good and bad, anger and protectiveness, kindness and pride. But right now, I had only strangled fear and the promise of revenge.
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Did he die well? No, I thought. Nobody did. They just died.
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I don’t like anyone knowing anything about me that I didn’t choose to tell them.
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No matter how interminable something feels, there is always, always an ending. Sometimes that's good, and sometimes it's bad sometimes it's a matter of indifference, and sometimes it's heartbreaking, and your life is never the same thereafter.
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I wanted proof, not promises.
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I think my head's a minefield strewn with triggers, and maybe if I survive each explosion, what emerges from the wreckage will be me, really, truly me.
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Caring too much could be dangerous I saw that now. But the alternative was no better.
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You don’t need to be afraid of falling // when there’s someone around to catch you.
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