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     Conversationally making leather skinned friends who bear bruised fists for hand shakes. Raising children like their digits... Teaching them to speak only when hate's drunken family prejudice spills alcohol the mentor of false clarity outcome of a loved one's blood, Staining our flawlessly charred no needle of love can stitch the heart's memory ache wounds back up...

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Unnecessary shrapnel donations of torment