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1
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I have never masqueraded as that

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X

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2
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Life is a stage with one entrance…

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But many exits

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3
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Can we not argue…

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That’s what the terrorists want

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4
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All birth is a Capitol crime…

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Punishable by death

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5
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You know what the penalty for being born is don’t you…

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Death

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Shabby chic

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7
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Entwined in an embrace

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I waiting for the death of desire

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9
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Reason is a whore who will fulfil any…

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Desire

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10
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A slave to passion

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11
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I sense a trap

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12
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Duplicitous

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13
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It exceeded moderation

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14
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It was a night that exceeded

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Moderation.

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15
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A meat that failed to make it into

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Sausages

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16
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A cynical and unshockable generation

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17
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The unresponsiveness of God is no obstacle to his popularity

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18
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A sickly coloured claw

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19
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Yeah well, Try not to wear it out

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20
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The poetry of youth

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Ironically

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21
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Product placement

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22
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A tendency to excess

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23
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Mass culture replaced religion…

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And has done a better job.

At indoctrinating values

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24
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Mass media has done more to civilise man than

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Religion

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25
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My very own circle of hell

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26
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Pseudo pagan body worship

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27
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A society of addicts

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28
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Anywhere you find knowledge you find power

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29
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Hope nothing
Expect nothing
Desire nothing

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D

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30
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You successfully banalised that word, idea

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31
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Knowledge and power operate on a basis of exclusion

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32
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I have intimate conversations with my household appliances…

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Some of them violent

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33
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Communication is not equal. Power decides who can

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Command, who can question and who can listen

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34
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A festival of atonement

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35
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Human ironically tends to be used as a term of exclusion

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36
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Society is a prison

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37
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My own personal circle of hell

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38
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There is a special circle of hell for people like that

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39
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I never penetrated his/ her intimate circle

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40
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Marginal gains

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Where victory is won or lost

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41
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It’s only popular because it is popular…

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It has no other redeeming features

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42
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Trendy kids change their identity at the same rate as they change their fashion

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43
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Every time I see you I have to pretend I don’t

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X

44
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Sometimes I wish that none of this had happened

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X

45
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It’s an asset

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X

46
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Every moment in history people have felt they are in profound danger…

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  • ironically it has never been less true
47
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Commodities have become more than just objects of use, they have become an expression of who we are

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X

48
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Cupid put too much poison in the dart

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X

49
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There is no authority of reason over madness…

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Only the authority of the masses

50
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I try to be a good man

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I’m just not

I’m too jaded

51
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Kiss me I’ve quit smoking

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X

52
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There are different levels of evidence

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X

53
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I say I love you when I mean turn out the light

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X

54
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No one will ever love you for your honesty…

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People prefer lies to truth

55
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You struggle with the complexity of the world by simplifying it

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X

56
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You’re playing victim to my villain

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X

57
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There’s no accounting for taste

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X

58
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A closed casket look

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X

59
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It’s the cocaine of the sober man

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Coca Cola, Pepsi, coffee

60
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Everybody poots

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X

61
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Truth is like poetry…

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And most people fucking hate poetry

62
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A post wank biscuit

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X

63
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I’m rock hard

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X

64
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Inverted snobbery

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X

65
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You’re infinitely more

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Likeable than me

66
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How very elegant

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X

67
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That was graceful

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X

68
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I’m going to go home and take a shower, largely so that…

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I can’t tell whether or not I’m crying

69
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Misunderstanding for…

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Comic effect

70
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It does no violence to my point

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X

71
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Spontaneous coordination

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Free market economics

72
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Gone off piste

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X

73
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We are many, they are few

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Shelly on peterloo

74
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I’ve been tempted in to bed….

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By less

75
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Absolutely zero fucks were given

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X

76
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True to form

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X

77
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This town needs an enema

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C

78
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Confirmation bias

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X

79
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Compassion fatigue

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X

80
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Besmirched

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X

81
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You have lovely eyes

- thank you I made them myself

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X

82
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Progress is a drunken walk to paradise

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X

83
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Tyranny of the majority

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Checks and balances

84
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A dubious distinction

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X

85
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I get the feeling you are…

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Leading me astray

86
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Damn, you’re boxing me in

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X

87
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A squeal of delight

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X

88
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What we pray for what they do not give us, and they send us what we do not ask for

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(There is no understanding the gods)

89
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That sounds stupid…

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I’m in

90
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Like a pig in shit

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Happy as hell

91
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The stuff of nightmares

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X

92
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A spot of bother

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X

93
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Boss talk

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X

94
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A sphincter like a clamp

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X

95
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4 timeless values

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Wisdom
Justice
Courage
Moderation

96
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It’s a misery

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X

97
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It’s like family, except I genuinely love them

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X

98
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You’re not going to believe this, because it usually never happens, but

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I made a mistake

99
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Emotionally unstable

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X

100
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The little brother or sister is not the cause of the parents misery, they are just a symptom of it

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Symptom

101
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It’s traumatic

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X

102
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It tastes of despair

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X

103
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Just doesn’t give a fuck

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X

104
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4 areas of argument

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Definition
Values
Fact
policy

105
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Luckily I was spared the misery of hope

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X

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