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But she was no guardian angel. She was not trying to help me at all. She had been trying to claim me as she had claimed the lives of my fellow passengers.
She was the thing that remained forever unseen in my visions of her tales. She lurked near the bodies of those whose whose lives were so cruelly taken. She was there always, waiting.
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― Tales of Terror from the Tunnel's Mouth
― Tales of Terror from the Tunnel's Mouth
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First is the danger of futility; the belief there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the worlds ills -‐-‐ against misery, against ignorance, or injustice and violence. Yet many of the worlds great movements, of thought and action, have flowed from the work of a single man. A young monk began the Protestant reformation, a young general extended an empire from Macedonia to the borders of the earth, and a young woman reclaimed the territory of France. It was a yo
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