Revenge: it's a dream of flames fueled by scorched remains that are lit to a torch and brought back upon the one who burned you.
After I was caught returning at dawn from one such late-night escapade, my worried mother thoroughly interrogated me regarding every drug teenagers take, never suspecting that the most intoxicating thing I__ experienced, by far, was the volume of romantic poetry she__ handed me the previous week. Books became my closest confidants, finely ground lenses providing new views of the world.
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After I was caught returning at dawn from one such late-night escapade, my worried mother thoroughly interrogated me regarding every drug teenagers take, never suspecting that the most intoxicating thing I__ experienced, by far, was the volume of romantic poetry she__ handed me the previous week. Books became my closest confidants, finely ground lenses providing new views of the world.
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