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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.

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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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No matter how much he would long for them to forget him, they would not be able to. His family was a part of him, not only in blood, but in spirit.
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Somewhere in the dead of the southern night my life had switched onto the wrong track and without my knowing it.
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