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Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something. In order to obtain something, something of equal value must be lost.

My arm and leg, your body taken from us because we committed the ultimate taboo to bring back someone we love.

Wasn't that Enough?

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The painful surgery that gave me mechanical limbs when I had none…so I could continue to move forward.

Wasn't that Enough?

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The burning down of our childhood home, our only home…the symbol of our sins…a symbol that we couldn't turn back, leaving behind the ones that we loved.

Wasn't that Enough?

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Becoming the military's dog at the age of twelve in order to research ways to get your body back…to correct our mistake.

Wasn't that Enough?

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Learning that a man had used is own daughter as a lab experiment, turning her into a monster, to keep his job, to stay the military's dog… and not being able to do anything to help her.

Wasn't that Enough?

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Seeing a little girl open a door hoping to see her father and ask me "Where's Daddy?"… Her father who was killed because he learned something he shouldn't have…trying to help me.

Wasn't that Enough?

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The aching where an arm and leg should be as it rained the day I dug up the ruins my childhood home to find the monster we created…only to find out that it wasn't her.

Wasn't that Enough?

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The scars that cover my body from the many foes I've faced…trying to protect everyone… making her cries every time she has to fix my arm or see me hurt.

Wasn't that Enough?

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Putting my childhood friend…the girl who gave me an arm and leg when I had none…the girl that I'm in love with in danger because I discovered the corrupt schemes of the military.

Wasn't that Enough?

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Giving my whole being in order to get back what we lost…

Only to have you sacrifice your soul to bring back my arm…

Almost losing you…

Giving everything I have to keep them safe…

And almost having them taken away…

WASN'T THAT ENOUGH!

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The pain, the suffering, the loss

Wasn't it enough?

To return what we lost, to make everything right?

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Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something. In order to obtain something, something of equal value must be lost.

Isn't this Enough?

Even though I have nothing left to give…

They want more…

Isn't this Enough?

To create an

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