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‘People who fear making mistakes eventually become afraid to even try anything, and those people die much earlier than their actual death. ‘

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Sometimes in life, you witness events that you are not physically a part of, but they change you in ways that you are no longer who you were before

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Though their troubles are as individual as them, a common thread runs through, connecting them to each other — longing.

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