"I made a mistake when I was young and didn’t know how the world worked and I have paid for it. Many, many times over."

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“Don’t believe anything on the news feeds. It’s all just a circus for the masses.”

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“She speaks with the authority of the ignorant.”

“I’m still not even sure I believe that now. Sounds like the sort of bullshit my psych supervisor would say.”

“He’s trying to get me to confess some fictional problem to him and I won’t fall for it.”

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