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Sometimes, you never leave a place. Sure, your heart can be roaming over green hills with the wind rushing past you, but your body is in a fort on a dreary island a thousand miles away. And after a while, you forget rolling hills and running free and you get tied to stone walls and spilling blood. You tie yourself to a woman that you love more than life and somehow, your love and her love make you both forget about wanting to be free. So you make a life in stone walls and bring children into the world who never know to dream about rolling hills and being free. And you forget to pity them because you just love them too much too care. And when little boys stolen from their homes come to you full of tears and longing for green hills, you have to teach them to live within stone walls. And you have to learn not to pity them for their loss.
