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A Former Self

You can have anything you want, but you can't have everything. The time comes in everyone's life where they must choose what's worth risking I've been living day to day, chasing something I can't even see. It's a competition I didn't know I was in, until I realized I was losing. Now what's at stake and what I have left is being weighed by Justice's scales. All I'm left with is the skeleton of who I used to be and a face that I barely recognize as my own...
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