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Once upon a time…

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Once upon a time there was a guard…

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He saved my life…

I talked to him. It gave me something to do; somewhere to be that wasn’t so dangerous….

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He was one of those ponies I offered it to. But he declined. He was… virtuous. In a sense I couldn’t comprehend at that age. At that point in my life.

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[Tap] [Tap] [Tap]

They killed him… Broad daylight, they came for him. And he still managed to save me…

[Sniff]

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And all I could do was run…