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"Then for the next eleven years, I tried to work up the nerve to talk to you.".
"Without success," I add.
"Without success."

— Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games (2008)

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Closing my eyes doesn’t help. Fire burns brighter in the darkness.

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No wonder I won the games. No decent person ever does.

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