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In the beginning we were a group of nine.

Three are gone, dead.
There are six of us left.
They are hunting us, and they won't stop until they've killed us all.

I am Number Four.

I know that I am next.


Pittacus Lore

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Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into.
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Hate pollutes the mind.
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