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If you knew in advance that something momentous and terrible would happen you__ make an effort to imprint it all in your mind, wouldn__ you, every detail. But of course you don__ know. And perhaps that__ just as well.
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If you knew in advance that something momentous and terrible would happen you__ make an effort to imprint it all in your mind, wouldn__ you, every detail. But of course you don__ know. And perhaps that__ just as well.
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