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"I've been alive a long time, long enough to know that the more baggage you carry in life, the more unstable you'll be, until eventually you get sick of carrying it, and then you just fall down."
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Mandy hadn't cried; she'd only stared back knowingly, her voice shaky. “I'm normal.”
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