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I was quite happy to be apart of such a wonderful bunch of misfortunes today. As we sat around the table, drinking our coffee and teas, there was nothing else to say but the things we were accustomed to. Whether it was hypothermia, malnutrition, or just the common flu, something linked us together, something that became a happy coincidence.
There were various systems down that night. For some reason, the guys in the back wouldn't even lift a finger to help out. Poor morons. They don't even see the benefits of helping another. In times like this, it's all you got to help a poor bloke out. When there's no money, no food, and no power, poor morons is all you've got.
They dismissed me like they couldn't bare to look at my scars anymore. The people, the faces, the eyes, none could gaze upon my beaten, bloody, body anymore than what most of them could stomach. Maybe they'll understand one day. Maybe they'll understand what it's like to live in the games...
"Well, I never thought it would be this hard," said Banx. The next few days would be some of the hardest days of my life, I just didn't know it yet.
For three years, I would run back and forth, pushing hay barrels, like some old guy on a farm, just to get ready for the next race-sweat oozing off of my face like oil running off of a canvas.
The sweat dripped off of his face. Tommy couldn't believe that he just scored the last game winning touchdown of his high school football career. The team rushed over to him and surrounded his body with loud shouts of "That's right Tommy! State champs!" From that moment on, Tommy always knew that he would be in the National Football League.
The last lap. I could hardly believe that my entire career was coming down to this 300 foot accumulation of asphalt into a checkered flag. All of the sleepless nights, restless days, and potent smell of engine fumes is coming down to my ability to weave through the last lap.
"This is our crew! We have worked through the blood, sweat, and tears of every single obstacle that has come through this unit. We ARE NOT going to be stopped now. Do it for your wives, your children, your honor, your integrity, your freedom-you, men, are the last hope," and with that, the 101st brigade stepped into death knowing that their lives were over.
The generator just went out, there was no other source of power throughout the whole city. Jim and Erick couldn't conjure up another plan like this one. The gates broke loose, the electric tower fell, and the only thing left between the gyrds and us was nothing but thick, smokey, darkness.
We were sitting outside that night. Both of us completely exhausted from the hike earlier that afternoon. We had just finished our conversation when, beneath the crescent moon, I looked at my beautiful bride and said, "I love you, dear."
"What must not bring us down will lift us up, but what will lift us up can only bring us down." Jenny said this with the most arrogant attitude that I've ever heard. It's not like me to think about people like this, to think that they are nothing but hot air, but you see, the kind of people that boil me the most are the kind that know more than I do-I'm afraid.
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