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It is not easy to be stranded between two worlds, the sad truth is that we can never feel completely comfortable in either world

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In the past few months, life had lost its sweetness and he’d lost his way. But no longer. Death was once again the enemy, his indifference and apathy drowned in a Cheshire pond.
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