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They think they're in on the joke that they are. The irony is becoming them.

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You can't shake the feeling that he knows something you don't.

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'I need you there', she would say, if she could.

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The self forms around another self. It has no independent being, cannot verify its own existence.

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He doesn't care about the money. The competition was all.

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He closes his eyes and slips beneath the surface of himself.

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A one-time admission of humanity, here at the end of everything.

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Though one that makes him respect you less.

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He's pleading this case more to himself than to you.

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He used to lift her in the air and make her fly like a cosmonaut. Used to say goodnight with a kiss on the nose.

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You know the answer.

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You could suggest anything, he doesn't care as long as he's invited.

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But at what cost? To become the high arbiter of Human Capital, you no doubt have to trade in some of your own.

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Base it in fact. He won't believe it otherwise.

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He's never been away from them for this long before.

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He's got something for you. Ears on your enemies.

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Silently, he asks you to trust him.

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The problem has been weighed carefully from the perspective of one who knows themselves disposable.

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Another little reminder. The subtlest of knife-twists.

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His upbringing, education, and other conditions outside of his control have made him who he is today... have patience.

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The city was her chrysalis.

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Afraid that he won't be able to forgive himself if something happens, but aware that he isn't equipped to help either way.

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No attempt to deflect or deny. He takes it all into himself like a landslide.

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As he puts it away, you see the look he gives his masterpiece, as though wondering why it is not good enough for you.

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It's hopeless. You brought this on yourself.

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If this was anyone else you'd feel patronised. But that's not Ram's style -- he's genuinely trying to help.

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Glad that the time he spent on the whistle wasn't wasted after all.

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He doesn't know, but he has suspicions he's not prepared to share yet.

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Understanding dawns on his features, and with it something like peace.

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Simple, obvious. The only way it could be.

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The feeling isn't even bittersweet. It feels like something that happened to someone else entirely.