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It was beautiful, and sad, about poverty and hunger, and, of course, was asking me to sign a petition. It drives me mad how beautiful hearts just shuffle off to the dizzying heights of utter ineffectuality. Mention it to one of them and their hackles go up instanter. There are a trillion tropes prefab for such encounters... and they use them all... believing they are being truthful. These are not "liars". These are deluded people, like 99.999% of the people one encounters over the course of a lifetime.
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