[262x400]It was true. I knew it was true, even if mom didn't see it. But this kind of things doesn't happen to you, right? It happens to other people.

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– Who are you?
– Names, names, names... Each name is but a single aspect of the whole.

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They are normal. Terrifyingly, appallingly normal–like they've gone through normal and come out the other side. The Stepford Yuppies.

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And why couldn't anyone have let us know? I mean, I would have liked the option to refuse to go to his funeral.

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I'm older. I've been up, and been down, and been up again.
Have I learned ought? I've learned from my mistakes, but I've had more time to commit more mistakes.

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For this is my judgement on you: that you shall know, at all times, and forever, exactly what you are. And you shall know just how little that means.