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#@$*=~,... When  I Was  In Eight Grade  I Decided I ...,~=*$@#
##@$*=~,.. Was  Dead. My  Spirit Had Left  My Body, ..,~=*$@##
###@$*=~,.             Never To Return.             .,~=*$@###
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#@$*=~,... I Remember Sitting In My Parents Car  On ...,~=*$@#
@$*=~,.... A Cloudy,  Watery  Day,  Getting  A Ride ....,~=*$@
$*=~,..... Somewhere.  It Felt  Like I  Had  Solved .....,~=*$
*=~,...... Some   Great   Puzzle.  I'Ve  Solved  No ......,~=*
=~,.......            Puzzles Since Then.           .......,~=
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,.........  Instead, I'Ve Been Mindlessly Piloting  .........,
.......... This Body Around. I Still Give  It Life, ..........
.......... 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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