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Weekly Contest #42
We, as human beings, are constantly hungry. We are starving and desperate for the thing that fills us up and makes everything more bearable. It makes tragedy a little more tragic and hunger a little more passionate. What we would give to forever sink into the arms of our mothers and be cradled like the rest just doesn’t matter. Our egos need to be carried in a pocket or coddled in a spoon. They are the eggshells we choose to walk on and destroy. No matter how hard we try, walking on eggshells, or even running at that, cannot be done on empt...
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