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.
Everyone," Ross said, "seems a little less concerned than I do. Am I more tender-hearted for others or only tender because of my own conscience?""We are not__ntender," she said. "Not so. But maybe we are more__esigned. When a man is condemned to death we accept it, though it's sad to do so. We know we cannot change it. You hoped to change it__o it's more of a__ disappointment. You feel you have failed. We don't feel that because we never hoped to succeed.
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Everyone," Ross said, "seems a little less concerned than I do. Am I more tender-hearted for others or only tender because of my own conscience?""We are not__ntender," she said. "Not so. But maybe we are more__esigned. When a man is condemned to death we accept it, though it's sad to do so. We know we cannot change it. You hoped to change it__o it's more of a__ disappointment. You feel you have failed. We don't feel that because we never hoped to succeed.
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