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We are behind you. We are beneath you.
Did you look?
We are rising up over you.
Let it consume your flaws and your fears and your doubts.
It's time to take a leap of faith.
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an aware presence and a crushing solitude.
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and pitched downward.
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coldness of it as it made its way down. Her whole body ached more than she thought 439Please respect copyright.PENANA6vObMZYJ1i
possible, and all sense of direction was gone. There was no up or down, only blackness.
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into the deep and stopped fighting.439Please respect copyright.PENANAkNmt05JuZ6
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