TUE alternate timeline.
Stronger
June 17, 2013
"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger."
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It was Teslaff's motto; she even had a framed poster of it hanging up in the gym for ease of reference. All the students hated it, because whenever she said it, it meant they were about to run suicides instead of normal laps.
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Years later, after the explosion, after the ghost gauntlets, after Vlad, after everything, he saw it again on the same old cinderblock wall, still there while the rest of the high school burned down around it, and he laughed because for the first time he realized how true it was.
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