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“By cutting off my hair I was punishing myself for loving someone so much. I was trying to be stronger" -Cal.”

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“We walk through things we could not fathom, conjure up strength from thin air and trek through the impossible. Somehow we are our strongest when we are at our weakest. There is a level of trouble where you have no control. Life forces you to submit to woe. You must surrender any power you think you have and live on faith. When life breaks you and sends you down on bended knee, you realize your strength. Surprisingly it is in our loss of power where resilience lives. We are tough when we realize we are fragile.”

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“An entire life, lavishly colored with ecstasies and agonies, is exclusively born from the functional expression of neurochemistry. Every time that we sob in sorrow or laugh in joy, we do so, steered by a glorious storm of hormonal interplay within the deepest parts of our mind. And with each drop of tear that we shed in our times of excruciating pain, our brain constructs majestic new cellular connections to aid in the pursuit of our passion - in the pursuit of truth.”

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“Thanks for the sympathy. I appreciate it. We are trying to be strong for the benefit of the group. We can’t afford to break down and cry for every friend we lose. Not while we still have a job to do. Once we get to safety, who knows how we’ll react? I’m trying hard to push my feelings aside and focus on staying alive, but as you said, it’s not easy.”

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“The world they left behind was never going to be the same. Life was going to get very difficult from here on. They would surely suffer, if they had to live through it. He knew he could handle it because he was stronger and colder. He was made for a world like this. They were not.”

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