The dead pull the living down.
Wouldn__ be very fair to the rest of them, would it?_ Harper asked. __hey__e not bad people, most of them. All they want is to be safe.___sn__ that always a permission slip for ugliness and cruelty? All they want is to be safe, and they don__ care who they have to destroy to stay that way. And the people who want to kill us, the Cremation Crews, all they want is safety, too!
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Wouldn__ be very fair to the rest of them, would it?_ Harper asked. __hey__e not bad people, most of them. All they want is to be safe.___sn__ that always a permission slip for ugliness and cruelty? All they want is to be safe, and they don__ care who they have to destroy to stay that way. And the people who want to kill us, the Cremation Crews, all they want is safety, too!
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