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Everything Pays A Price
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2022-01-23 21:50:48Everything pays the price…even love.
We are paying the price for the bad things in our past, for the bad people we have left behind. I would like to say that my past has come to haunt me, but when you truly reflect, it is Isabella that has left a string of monsters behind. Now in no way am I blaming her for what has happened, but I just wish that there was a point where she was more honest.
Faith, well, it is a word that I truly have lost all faith in, if you may say it in such a strange way. What does a man like me do to deserve what has been thrown on my plate? I did not ask for it, I did not do any wrong, it was done to me, and I had no say.
Ya, let me fucking repeat it…Everything pays the price…even love…
We have paid the price…I have paid the price.
Fate is what happens when you are not watching, yet karma is the way to play fate's wicked game.
Now the only thing you can be sure of is yourself. What ch
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