'heavily trodden: mental cartography of the finest details,
surveying the lands of our former selve
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'attempting to discover the turn which led into the dank forests,'
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'veins of precious mineral memories twist and snake through the landscape, each hidden pocket concealing nuggets of our purest truths.'
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'breeding contempt for those who seemingly refuse to adhere to rampant willpower, divorcing us from the innate harmony of our shared existence.'*
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'a cloak to conceal us from the demoralizing gazes,'
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'The terrors we encounter along the paths we had forged ourselves in days past,....lie in ambush, awaiting our return to spring forth'
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'The way to the forsaken mines opens up before us,'
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'in its stead now sits mindful determination atop the bloodied throne recently vacated,'
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'we can take these treasures, cherish them, but they are no more ours to keep than the stars in the cosmos,'
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press on, and their salvations shall reinforce your own
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