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Tears collected in my eyes as I walked up the hill. I wasn’t crying for my mother, or myself, or even that poor homeless man. I was crying for all of us. There’s so much pain everywhere, and we just close our eyes to it. The truth is we’re all scared. We’re terrified of each other. I’m terrified of myself, and of my mother in me. Is her madness in my blood? Is it?