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You usually take it for granted and think you know us, but our history is far stranger than you suspect, and we are not what we seem.

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I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . .
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He had lived and acted on the assumption that he was alone, and now he saw that he had not been. What he had done made others suffer.
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