Sometimes it's a good choice to take a portion of narrative and turn it into inner dialogue. Here's the narrative: He wondered if his mother was right. That he was born bad and had just gotten worse over the years. Since he was now a cold-blooded killer, perhaps that meant his character was fixed and could not be changed. Now, let's switch that to inner dialogue: Mom was right. You're no good. You were born no good and you've just gotten worse. Cold-blooded killer, that's you. So what? That's the way of this big bad world, and you kill or you get killed. So you're a big man now, you kill,
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