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She took a sip from her glass of water and fixed her eyes on Berger. “Exactly what that something is remains a bit unclear to me. The objective is quite hazy. You aren’t a political party or a special-interest group. You have no loyalties to consider except your own. But you pinpoint flaws in society and you don’t mind entering into battles with public figures. Often you want to change things and make a real difference. You all pretend to be cynics and nihilists, but it’s your own morality that steers the magazine, and several times I’ve noticed that it’s quite a special sort of morality. I
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The third bullet caught her about two centimetres below the top of her left ear. It penetrated her skull and caused a spider’s web of radial cracks in her cranium. The lead came to rest in the grey matter about five centimetres beneath the cerebral cortex by the cerebrum.
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retain the ability to walk away, without sentimentality, from a situation that felt unmanageable. That was a basic rule for survival. Do not lift a finger for a lost cause.
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