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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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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.371Please respect copyright.PENANAOATUS66xsT
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