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“The contrast between the glorious sight in front of me and the deep, jagged scars on his face is so stark, so jarring, that for a moment, my mind struggles to reconcile the two. The world has just shown me something pure, beautiful, perfect—and now, here is the opposite. Burned. Ruined. Imperfect.”

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