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Even the most unbearable things became fossils, after a while.

They were the truncated ones—them, and countless others who'd gone before and were doubtless to follow, since the world that purported to want peace seemed always to be at war.

Wasn't it a fair measure of a person, what they did with their mistakes? How they managed to stumble into some of the right steps, after taking all the wrong ones?