So, I've been dealing with the emotional and physical aftermaths of how close I came to doing the big stupid. As part of that, I decided I wanted to write out a story based on what happened. The following is based solely on my impressions of what happened and of those that helped me. It is a stylized novelization of the emotions and situations I went though heavily couched in allegory and imagery based on MLP and Second Life. I've missed a great many of you in this and I'm sorry for that,

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In 1821, U.S. Secretary of State (and later president) John Quincy Adams delivered one of the first great speeches on American foreign policy. In line with George Washington's warning against European entanglements, Adams announced that America was a friend to freedom-loving people around the world, but there were limits to what we would do for our friends. America stood for liberty, he said, but America would not crusade for liberty. America would stand for good, but it would not enforce good

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"Elsa, come on!"

Elsa smiled gingerly as she watched her younger sister skip across the snow, though it became more difficult as the snow began to grow deeper. Winter had come earlier than in more recent years, but Elsa never minded it that much. She was just glad to be able to be near her sister.

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Attack on Titan—Shingeki no Kyojin if we’re being Like That, and we’re not—is a manga written and illustrated by Hajime Isayama, which ran from September 2009 to April 2021, and it’s bad. It’s so fucking bad.
  
And it's fascinating.

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