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“You should not expect a monster to change, even at the end of a fairy tale. For in a children’s story, the monster must be killed. If he remains alive, his nature will be limned. There is no gentling of an abomination.”
― Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois