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// Entry #2 January 4, 2190 
// Story: Starswirl's Journal 
// by AlesFlamas 
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Today was rather emotional. It's been years since I've seen my father. Actually years is an understatement. I've never seen my father. Since the day of my birth, he has entertained and wowed the masses at the Gilded Lily, the unicorn grand capital. Today was actually the first I'd ever seen of him. He came in a chariot pulled by two rather muscular mud-dweller stallions. He seemed worn and tired, and also relieved, though of what I could not say. More than anything though he seemed happy to be home. Scarcely a moment had passed after he stepped from his mode of transport that he had thrown his forelegs around me and my mother. And it was a minute after that he forced me onto the chariot. He left me with only these parting words: "Do not let them stifle you as they stifled me, my son. I love you. Do not forget that." The dirt-children turned the chariot and sped off before I had a chance to respond. I never did get to say goodbye to my mother.