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Weekly Contest #358
Nobody believed in me. That was their first mistake. Their second was believing in him. The war hero. They worshipped him. The man they said would remake everything. Radically. Permanently. They hung one every word he spoke, as if he alone could drag this fractured nation into some new, shining future. They never stopped to ask who could be destroyed in this process. Someone had to act. Someone had to see the danger for what it was. If no one else would carry the burden, then it had to be me. My leg screams every time my foot hits the ground...
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