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Pain is the greatest enemy of all sentient beings. It can drive anybody into a dark and cold place where nobody recognizes their existence. People will have you believe that being driven into that dark place is easily avoidable, but that is naive. No matter how strong you believe yourself to be, you are but one person and there is only so much that one person can take. To one who has absolutely nobody that cares, that dark place is the only thing they know.

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