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Sometimes we walk into something that is not for us at all. We pretend it is. We think we can shrug it off like a coat, but it's not a coat at all, it's more like another skin.

— Colum McCann Let the Great World Spin (2009)

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People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time - but even on the best day nobody's perfect.

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The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.

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Yet nothing was simple, certainly not simplification.

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Perhaps it's chance. Or perhaps chance is just another way to try to convince ourselves that we are valuable.

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