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This is how we are protecting you, by getting you out.
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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
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And the pain is too much it's too much it's too much and my hands are on my head and I'm rearing back and my mouth is open in a never-ending wordless wail of all the blackness that's inside me. And i fall back into it.
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I was only following orders, the Mayor mocks. The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time.
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