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Self awareness is a good attribute to have. I suspect there will be no apologies. Most who wanted us dead will pretend it never happened and carry on. Keep the fire going around the hill as a warning to these rats but don't let it keep you from climbing higher.

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What if I cannot get any higher? I don't want to associate with the sheep anymore, and it is lonely.

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People are all by themselves in their lives; they just fail to notice... You are already higher, because you have.

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Ray, thank you. For some reason, I feel comforted.

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Welcome to the club! I've been like that since the age of 10, when I realized that "belonging" to a group of people is simply impossible on fair or realistic terms... :)

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Not on topic, but my other favorite sentence out of her mouth was "The closest I"ve ever been to pate de foie gras is Mother Goose". I was never part of the in group either for all my life...my sister was Prom Queen, etc etc. but me, I hung out with the rejects, gearheads, etc.

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I had a college roomate who would say the most extraordinary but memorable one liners...one of my favorites was "I never could stand my peer group"

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The monsters are not gone, only taking a break.

As long as Germ Theory prevails, there will be an endless succession of "viruses" and "pandemics."

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