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Baneful Brickbats Begat Grievous Barrier

Baneful brickbats begat grievous barrier Tell tale indelible woe y'all privy to learn yours truly harbors traces of the masterful impregnable prepubescent wall still extant scads of decades since complex edifice erected to force tall adolescence - permanently leaving me, (a poor buoy at sea) unmoored, marooned, and furloughed ready for pall bearers to spill soil upon my then emaciated stick figure overall. Courtesy anorexia nervosa, an unlovely bag of bones stripped of flesh, sans unseen deadly invisible pathogens, who valiantly tried to mothball, and nearly succeeded, kneaded, and deeded landfall, when August parents aghast at wits end be tiding, halting, and ramming an utter disgrace at kick/dodgeball player with serious game of life (thrown) off kelter and death, begat fantasy to excel at athletics the latter cleated toehold unanimous decision to install topnotch scorer anticipating seeing his name plaque mounted within glass encasement within guildhall, faintly hearing inaudible teammates praised showered, visited head upon one, with grit and gall, who clinched championship wrathful excoriation against me referee could not forestall, who fumbled, kindled (as predicted) loose tongues flaying hide with no rescue brow beaten into pulp, I could barely crawl to escape being skewered behind eight ball. Thus the above "FAKE" metaphor merely written to accentuate self repudiation delivered upon head of this defacto scapegoat bullies endless taunts bred snickering crowdsource to berate besieging, jackknifing, and resulting when old enough to query divine providence questioning why biological happenstance linkedin mature haploid male and female germ cell united in sexual reproduction to form zygote and future nebbish, namely writer of these words triggering random chain of events whereby a fertilized ovum courtesy mitosis, (a type of cell division resulting in two daughter cells each having the same number and kind of chromosomes as the parent nucleus), typical of ordinary tissue growth such random genetic dice throw did create genesis of yours truly wrought cellular differentiation implacable existentialism debate asper my grant (migrant) humph...pariah status to learn social skills quite late, and apathetically to marry and mate despite ambivalence within my pate even now...the entombed fortress prison wall, I cannot obliterate hence... no surprise WALLS - I HATE!

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