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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; color: #555555;" data-p-id="5b7e5cdea34f49b460ecf43186f8da6c"I held onto my dying father's hand tightly and close to my heart. His eyes were so terribly weak, his hand was very cold like the rest of his body and his face was pale. The monitor showed that his heart was slowing down./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; color: #555555;" data-p-id="f4bf4c63ac49688c238f2717b94a7005""There's something I g-gotta tell you."/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; color: #555555;" data-p-id="4a3b89bba84fee8895204cc4c1f6898d""No DADDY!" I Screamed./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; color: #555555;" data-p-id="5d6224cf84c420d5b4788f30929e10f3"Gohan wiped the tears off his face. "I-I'm so sorry."/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; color: #555555;" data-p-id="5d6224cf84c420d5b4788f30929e10f3"Gohan wiped the tears off his face. "I-I'm so sorry."/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; color: #555555;" data-p-id="73b26c58fec7e7c5e7cf36d543b88b5f""I don't think i'm quite up for sparing yet, Tania. Sorry..."/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; color: #555555;" data-p-id="374ca9d99bed12d41def2b90df1e8889""Yes, I know." ChiChi replies. "Gohan and Tania are in love. I can't stop them from feeling that way towards one another."/p