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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Prince Eccentro: Defective my royal boots!:He marched right over to Diamond as he got down on his knees beside her, looking straight at her with anger in his eyes.: There's nothing defective about you in any way! If anyone's defective is that liar Vesh! You shouldn't let his words get to you like that, let alone being called "defective"! Pfftt~! Its nonsense! I mean take it from somebody who has been called many things in his life: Failure, Disgrace, Loser, Wash-Up, Wash-Out, Bad Luck, No-Good, Spineless, Ridiculous, Coward. Those words wound me, but I never let em get the better of me-I prove em wrong by doing my best at showing em that this Bad Guy has what it takes!:He gripped his fists as he was on a passionate roll giving a pep talk to his ailing niece.: And you shouldn't let Vesh walk all over you and tell you your not important-your just as important as everyone else...and mean a lot to the people that care about you./p
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