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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; caret-color: #222222; color: #222222;" data-p-id="732ef23ce6a237aacc167dbb00931f67""Ok you can shut the fuck up, you have no right to be this smug. You're the one in the, I don't even know, wrong? Here. Are you a sadist now is that it? Is that why you tortured us for all this time, is that why you're now enjoying this unfortunately necessary pain we had to make you endure?" Aliyah now began to speak, almost choking up several times mid sentence. She'd never be able to describe to her 'sister' what her 'death' did to her and their family. /p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; caret-color: #222222; color: #222222;" data-p-id="732ef23ce6a237aacc167dbb00931f67""Ok you can shut the fuck up, you have no right to be this smug. You're the one in the, I don't even know, wrong? Here. Are you a sadist now is that it? Is that why you tortured us for all this time, is that why you're now enjoying this unfortunately necessary pain we had to make you endure?" Aliyah now began to speak, almost choking up several times mid sentence. She'd never be able to describe to her 'sister' what her 'death' did to her and their family. /p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; caret-color: #222222; color: #222222;" data-p-id="ccd3bd5be3b1818d030d13011083ccb6"Lilah sighed to herself realising she had once again fucked up. "No, no, no that's not it at all. Its a good thing you both have forgotten how to do this, it shows how much the world has healed since I was last here. How much peace you've gotten to have as a family, it makes me happy, it is amusing too as I feel like I'm suddenly back to when I was twenty two, when even in the darkness I was still teasing good old cousin dearest.. it" Lilah began to ramble, no idea where her sentence would end up, no idea where her thoughts were going or why they were leaving her mouth like vomit, something she couldn't control./p
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