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####,,#,,, when  i was  in eight grade i  decided i ,##,,##,,#
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####,,,##, i remember sitting in my  parents car on #,,####,,#
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,#,,,,,### somewhere. it  felt  like  i had  solved ###,,,,##,
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##,,,,,##, somehow. like a golem, and i try not  to ###,,,,,,#
#,,###,,,, care  too  much,   but   i  do.  it's  a ##,,####,,
,,,,#,,###   contaminated golem, this one. purity   #,,,,##,,,
###,,,,,## clouded  by my  echo.  afterglow  of  my ,,##,,,,##
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