Their laughter was like the stridulation of the ghosts of grasshoppers.
Of course, the self-righteous demand and expectation for love, and exactly how it should be expressed, is not the most streamlined method for producing it in another for you. That is, it does not compel or create the love itself. You__e neither loving nor producing that which would compel the love toward you. You__e compressed between them both and incapable of accepting either. And rightly so. Which then accelerates the accumulating suffering.
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Of course, the self-righteous demand and expectation for love, and exactly how it should be expressed, is not the most streamlined method for producing it in another for you. That is, it does not compel or create the love itself. You__e neither loving nor producing that which would compel the love toward you. You__e compressed between them both and incapable of accepting either. And rightly so. Which then accelerates the accumulating suffering.
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