"Why hasn't anyone killed him yet?"Dumb luck, Wit said. "In that I'm lucky you're all so dumb."

Fate, Luck, Survival, Irony

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"Why hasn't anyone killed him yet?"Dumb luck, Wit said. "In that I'm lucky you're all so dumb."

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