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Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

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“If pain delivers sentience, Give me all the pain of the cosmos! If tragedy transforms animal to human, Let all tragedy befall my shoulders! If darkness makes the sun bright, Let my life stay engulfed in ominosity. Let the world know me from my triumphs, While I know myself from my tragedies.”

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“Everyone saw you lose it,' I whisper, doing my best to mentally block the pain like I have countless times before. It's usually as easy as building a mental wall around the pulsing torment in my body, then telling myself the pain only exists in that box so I can't feel it, but it isn't working so well this time. 'I didn't lose it.' He kicks the door three times when we reach it. 'You shouted and carried me out of there like I mean something to you.' I focus on the scar on his jaw, the stubble on his tan skin, anything to keep from feeling the utter destruction in my shoulder. 'You do mean something to me.' He kicks again. And now everyone knows.”

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