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“Some people are molded by loss. Others, destroyed. But still, there is another type of people. They aren’t broken. They aren’t proud. They aren’t superheroes. They’re just people, indifferent in entirety, moving each day without a single care, without a single question. Life is just a daily meal. Served, chewed up, taken away before it gets too decayed. Sometimes disgusting, sometimes elegant, but, in the end, it’s always taken away and brought elsewhere. They have many names for these people— weird, disconnected, cold, heartless, cruel— but in reality they are only one thing: people.”

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Untitled Observations: and other fictional stories

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