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.,~\%@§### ~\, We Loved It Dearly. \~, ###§@%\~,.
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.,~\%@§@## ,~\ Builders. They Had Used Its ~,\ ##@§@%\~,.
.,\%@§@### ~,\ Hollow Body For Many Strange ~\, ###@§@%\,.
.,~\%@§@## ~\, Purposes - A Womblike Place Of \~, ##@§@%\~,.
.,~\@§@### \~, Gestation, A Storage Of Strage \,~ ###@§@\~,.
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.,~\%@§@## ~\, Presence, And Honored It The \~, ##@§@%\~,.
.,~\%@§@## \~, Only Way We Knew How: By \,~ ##@§@%\~,.
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.,~\%@§@## \,~ Courtyard On A Different Height, \~, ##@§@%\~,.
.,~\%@§@@# \~, Roads Becoming Roofs Becoming ~\, #@@§@%\~,.
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.,~\%@§@## ,~\ For Many Years. Once Its Walls ,\~ ##@§@%\~,.
.,~\%@§@## ,\~ Are Just Too High, And The \,~ ##@§@%\~,.
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.,~\%@§@## \~, Crawled For Weeks, Searching For ~\, ##@§@%\~,.
.,~\%@§@## ~\, A Secluded Place To Do Drugs And ~,\ ##@§@%\~,.
.,~\%@§@## ~,\ Play Music On Our Handhelds. ,~\ ##@§@%\~,.
.,~\%@§@## ,~\ Instead We Found Vast Lungs ,\~ ##@§@%\~,.
.,~\%@§@## ,\~ Drained Of Their Catalyst \,~ ##@§@%\~,.
.,~\%@§@## \,~ Sludge, And A Birds-Eye View To \~, ##@§@%\~,.
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.,~\%@§@@# ~\, Years To Come. ~,\ #@@§@%\~,.
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....,,~%%§ ~\, Toppled And Eaten By Machines. \,~ §%%~,,....
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.,~\%@§@@@ \,~ Conjured In Its Place. It'S A ,~\ @@@§@%\~,.
.,~\%@§@## ,\~ Tiny Maw At First, Shorter Than ~,\ ##@§@%\~,.
.,~\%@§@## ,~\ Us, And We Let It Be. Our ~\, ##@§@%\~,.
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.,~\%@§@## \,~ New Tower Eats Us. Others Are ,~\ ##@§@%\~,.
.,~\%@§@## ,\~ Sucked Inside. New Buildings Are ~,\ ##@§@%\~,.
.,~\%@§@## ,~\ Manifested Overnight, Only To ~\, ##@§@%\~,.
.,~\%§@### ~,\ Disappear In The Evening Fog. \~, ###@§%\~,.
.,,,\%%§@@ ~\, For A While Its Some Kind Of \,~ @@§%%\,,,.
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.,~\%@§@@@ \,~ Outside, And We Get Beaten Up A ,~\ @@@§@%\~,.
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