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REDEMPTION FOR SOMETHING THAT MEANS SOMETHING ONLY TO THOSE WHO ARE INVOLVED BOWING BEFORE MEN WHO WISH YOU TO SEE THEM AS SUPERIOR WHETHER YOU ARE BETTER OF BEST BEYOND THE FEATS OF STRENGTHS BEYOND THE RECOGNITION OF A PAST THAT MADE YOU GREAT THEY THOUGHT HIM BEATABLE THEY REFUSED TO RECOGNIZE HIS LUSTER THEY SPOKE OF HIM AS DULL AND UNADMIRIBLE THEY HONED THEIR SKILLS TO COMPETE BUT SPOKE HIM AS A NOTHING AND FIGURED HIM TO BE BENEATH THEM WHAT CHARISMA HAS HE THAT THOSE WHO WISH APPEAL FROM MASCULINITY FINDS HIM UNWANTED AND UNEXCITING CRAWL BEFORE THOSE WE WISH TO BED AND LABOR TO BE DEFEATED AS THEY ARE WISER TO LOVE THOSE WHO LOVE THEM YET THEY SPEAK OF HIM CHORING FROM BOUT TO BOUT AND HIS LABOR NON-INSPIRING THOSE PAST GREATNESSES SEK FOLLOW-UP AND THOSE WHO WISH HIM IN OPPOSITION DO SO TO STRENGTHEN THEIR OWN NEEDS FOR ADMIRATION AND ATTENTION WHAT NIGHTS AHEAD HIM THAT HIS DAY OF WRECKING SHALL FIND HIM TO BE SEEN AS BETTER THAN OR BEST MIGHT EACH CHALLENGE FIND HIM TO ONE DAY LIVE OUT THAT DREAM HIS BODY HAS MADE HIM AFFORD MIGHT THE GREATEST WORDS EVER SPOKEN BE ABOUT HIS LABORS THAT HE IS BEST AND THOSE WHO HAS OPPOSED HIM HAVE DONE SO THAT THEY ARE EQUALLY GREAT OR BEST

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