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Alexander around the Spiral Stair

Career, in his mind, is just a 20th century invention. My admiration seared when he admitted that he doesn't want one. So unlike a typical human being, that man. Four months later, they found his lifeless body in the Alaskan wilderness.

 

I could have married him, you know? I could have run away with him beyond the edge of the world - two hunted individuals leaving the stereotypical expectations of this stereotypical society. We could have had children, you know, whose names would be very strange, like the sound of the ocean in its sheer stillness or the explosion of its raging waves.

 

You know what made him beautiful, among all the others? His act of defiance. Most men that ever existed are coward *************

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lacus-crystalthorn
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Apr 23, 2013
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~Lacus Crystalthorn 2013

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