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It is the purest form of hypocrisy there is. It has existed since the dawn of time. Think of Adam & Eve. Oh aye, the Devil tempted Eve w/knowledge & she thought to better herself. So she took the bait, and then Adam grew curious & envious & wanted a piece of it all. Just like a selfish child. But go ahead and tell me again how man is governed by his mind & woman by her heart. They have lied to us from the beginning.

He held her in his arms until the whole of him, his body, sank into the earth beneath the wood floorboards, where he was cool and made of rocks, and the rocks were impenetrable, and he no longer felt the loss like a knife in his heart twisted over and over, over and over. His heart was a lump of granite, he had turned to stone.

Memory clouds often in the most poignant moments. It is as though even Memory knows it must watch what momentous thing is transpiring and forgets to record the details.