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Fear prequel

The second I thought that, it all came together. It feels like I solved the puzzle of my life. That was the one problem I have been running from my entire life. I allowed fear to have a home in my heart. Fear is what made me stay in the city than to go away to college. Fear is what bounds me to this world as a mundane, mediocre man at first glance. Fear is what made me fail by my own standards. Fear has finally crossed the last line. “The greatest stories are always about a woman,â€? I thought. Mine will be as well. My soul was demented by this type of self-inflicted pain in my life. I will fight you two, fear and cowardice, until my dying breath. You will no longer win. I will make you struggle as sadistically as you have made me. I will no longer yield to you….

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