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It was not a matter of believing or disbelieving what I read, but of feeling something new, of being affected by something that made the look of the world different.

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I listened, vaguely knowing now that I had committed some awful wrong that I could not undo, that I had uttered words I could not recall even though I ached to nullify them.
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