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I often had thoughts of vengeance, but I never felt they consumed me. In the days after our conversation, I thought about what Lee had said about Lydia__ killer having a new beginning in a different life. I didn__ want it to get in the way of justice, but didn__ everyone deserve a chance to begin again and become a better person? I think Lee knew he could reach my spirit of fairness, and as a human being __r near enough to one, it seemed unfathomable that someone should be made to pay for their past-life transgressions in a future life. I suppose that__ what karma was, in a way, just very different from an avenging fae. It didn__ mean I wouldn__ punish him, of course, if I had the chance.
Cailee Francis A Cascade of Moments
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I often had thoughts of vengeance, but I never felt they consumed me. In the days after our conversation, I thought about what Lee had said about Lydia__ killer having a new beginning in a different life. I didn__ want it to get in the way of justice, but didn__ everyone deserve a chance to begin again and become a better person? I think Lee knew he could reach my spirit of fairness, and as a human being __r near enough to one, it seemed unfathomable that someone should be made to pay for their past-life transgressions in a future life. I suppose that__ what karma was, in a way, just very different from an avenging fae. It didn__ mean I wouldn__ punish him, of course, if I had the chance.
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