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It's a dirty way to fight, but I'm late for lunch.
Maria V. Snyder
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Maria V. Snyder
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 1
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Your fear remains strong. You are not ready to face your story, preferring instead to surround yourself with knots. Someday, they will strangle you.
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I had hoped to hear everyone discussing how much they missed my altruistic qualities, my legendary skills as a fighter and as a lover. He leered. Instead, you're making plans for tomorrow. Interesting how life goes on in spite of itself.
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Maximum damage. It was the beginning of the end. Either we would fail or not. At least we could say we tried.
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I wanted to dissolve into the floor, mixing myself with the hard stone. A stone had a single purpose: to be. No complicated promises, no worries and no feelings.
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No hope, is worse than fear.
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There is a reason for everything. You might not be able to figure it out, and time might have made us all forget it, but the reason is there all the same.
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Pretty stupid,” I called after his retreating form. “To give up before all possible solutions have been tried.
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