Suddenly, she heard a loud bang, a thump and a scream that caused her to jump from the bed. The hair on the back of her neck stood straight up and her body became one big goosebump.
Her endeavor was misguided and wrong and maybe plain crazy, akin to someone waking up one day and deciding he__ going to scale Kilimanjaro because he can__ stop imagining the view from the top, the picture so arresting and beautiful that it too soon delivers him to a precarious ledge, where he can no longer turn back. And while it__ easy to say this is a situation to be avoided, isn__ this what we also fear and crave simultaneously, that some internal force which defies understanding might remake us into the people we dream we are?
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Her endeavor was misguided and wrong and maybe plain crazy, akin to someone waking up one day and deciding he__ going to scale Kilimanjaro because he can__ stop imagining the view from the top, the picture so arresting and beautiful that it too soon delivers him to a precarious ledge, where he can no longer turn back. And while it__ easy to say this is a situation to be avoided, isn__ this what we also fear and crave simultaneously, that some internal force which defies understanding might remake us into the people we dream we are?
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