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You could miss someone, but it did no good to fixate on loss. I wished I had the ready words of a Breeder or the ability to comfort with a soft touch. I didn't. Instead I had daggers and determination. That would have to do.
Ann Aguirre
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Ann Aguirre
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 27
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Ellen Connor
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Perhaps that was the point life, if you did it right, meant learning and changing. If you didn't, you died- or stopped growing - which amounted to more or less the same thing. So I would slide in and out of different roles until I discovered the one that fit me best. -Deuce, (183)
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My heart should be breaking, too, but there comes a point when you’re so inured to loss that you no longer feel the lash.
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It's only a sure defeat when you stop trying.
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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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For peace to take hold, one person must first stop fighting.
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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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A curve of silver hung amid the brighter specks it looked to me like a curved dagger, pretty but deadly, as if it might slice the sky in two.
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In the enclave, the strong and the physically perfect survived, but if you were strong, you protected the weak until they had an opportunity to grow into their own power.
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We stand a professional distance apart, as if I can’t feel his pain screaming in my head. Mine amplifies his they share a joint sound—that of glass breaking—until they swell to a crescendo that deafens.
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We stood back-to-back, blocking and striking in harmony sometimes it felt like his arms and legs were an extension of me. I could count on him to keep them off me from behind.
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Nobility and self-sacrifice sound wonderful in theory, but now he’s seen how it feels. A dead hero is still dead at the end of the day, and you’re still alone.
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Most people weren’t aware enough to fear the things that could really hurt them.
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There are quiet ways to die where the body just doesn’t notice that the heart is gone.
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Once exposed, a secret loses all its power.
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If I ever win you, he said, anger bright in his pale eyes, it will be because you want me more. Not because he's gone. I'm nobody's second best.
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