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Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happening to you: you__e falling to the floor crying thinking, __ am falling to the floor crying,_ but there__ an element of the ridiculous to it _ you knew it would happen and, even worse, while you__e on the floor crying you look at the place where the wall meets the floor and you realize you didn__ paint it very well.
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Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happening to you: you__e falling to the floor crying thinking, __ am falling to the floor crying,_ but there__ an element of the ridiculous to it _ you knew it would happen and, even worse, while you__e on the floor crying you look at the place where the wall meets the floor and you realize you didn__ paint it very well.

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