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A person can get used to just about anything if it happens slow enough.

— Robert Olmstead Coal Black Horse (2007)

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Though he had never smelled the death of men before, he knew the smell as if it were a knowledge born into him.

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Tonight he was too tired to hate and hoped in the morning when he was rested he would hate again.

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He decided from that day forever after that there must live a heartless God to let such despair be visited on the earth, or as his father said, a God too tired and no longer capable of doing the work required of him.

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He had experienced the horror that leaves you calm and unafraid, but for her something inside was broken and he did not know if it could be mended. Her life, her horror, he could not tell.

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