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Added November 5, 2014
Started with a dollar and a dream. Ended with two pennies and a nightmare.
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Sovereign Airspace
Illmaculate
Released
2014
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I am lying in bed next to my brother, Lupin. He is six years old. He is asleep. I am fourteen. I am not asleep. I am masturbating. I look at my brother and think, nobly, "This is what he would want. He would want me to be happy."
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I didn't like my mother, and I certainly didn't love her. The only time we actually had anything in common was when I had my own daughter—but by then it was too late, since my mother was to die before we really could compare notes.