All of this transpired around the same time OB and his friends doused me with gasoline. Little did they know their act of aggression would motivate me to chase my dreams and claim the future they tried to snuff. People who are always under siege often have no choice but to conjure their inner powers, to manipulate energies as they walk down streets where they were once beaten, to bend sound waves when invectives are close enough to the ear to cause pain, to suture broken hearts when the people they love refuse to love them back, and to appear again and again after death attempts to disappear
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