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Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
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If there was a distraction I'd get up and jump out the window. I was quite out of hand. In schools like that I don't think they expect that girls are going to behave in such an outrageous fashion.
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