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March 20 - March 21, 2020
Wealth and breeding couldn’t vanquish cowardice, treachery, or jealousy. And no amount of money could buy honor or sincerity.
wondering all the while if it was possible to get love back once it had gone. He didn’t think so. Once something was broken, it could never be properly mended. It might still be serviceable, useful even, but it’d never be the same; it would never be perfect.
“I’d have dumped your body in the lake, next to that fool’s secondhand finery,” the colonel hissed. “And then I would have come back here every day just so that I could be here when your bloated corpse floated to the surface, your fish-eaten face no longer recognizable, and laughed, knowing I had won.” “But sadly, you didn’t,”