Emily, there are enemies everywhere. We have to be on our guard, especially for the next couple of weeks._ Theo sighed unhappily. __his is going to be the longest fortnight of my life._ __hat__ saying something,_ I joked, __iven how long you__e lived._ __xactly,_ he said, without smiling.
Life is a spiral. As long as we lived, we would keep moving forward. But on a spiral path, getting closer to your destination meant periodically passing the same things__motions, issues, character flaws__ver and over again, the way a person walking up a spiral staircase would continually find himself facing north every ten steps or so.
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Life is a spiral. As long as we lived, we would keep moving forward. But on a spiral path, getting closer to your destination meant periodically passing the same things__motions, issues, character flaws__ver and over again, the way a person walking up a spiral staircase would continually find himself facing north every ten steps or so.
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