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As long as we remember a person, they're not really gone. Their thoughts, their feelings, their memories, they become a part of us.

— Justin Cronin The Passage (2010)

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Physical barricades were nothing compared to the wires of the mind.

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I feel as if I've entered a new era of my life. What strange places our lives carry us to. What dark passages.

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It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born.

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