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Reserve When the dam breaks, there will be no flood. There will be no rushing water, to run from. It has all been drank, or wasted on pretty plants, that have no editable value at all. The people will go thirsty, then they will go hungry, in ways they have never gone before. They will cry for their children, they will fight for them. But they will use no weapon at all. They will talk, and walk, and hold signs... that they can not drink or eat, until they starve. Bring more people here, let the gates open wide, we don't even want to hide. We want to tell the world we are "good", and not "bad" people. But all people are inherently bad, and you can not work your way to heaven... Anger, when there is no other emotion, to take its place, will reign on this earth. Be kind and remember, we are born just alike. We are not you and me, or they are them. We are together, in the same place, at the same time. Soon we will all be before the throne, and home, or on our way to hell.

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