I'm electric with vertigo, even though I'm on the ground, vertigo like I felt once when I stood on the edge of a high cliff in Arizona and looked straight down.
It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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