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I draw in a ragged breath, the kind you take when the pain is too deep to cry, when you can't cry because all you are is pain, and if you let some of it out, you might cease to exist.

I draw in a ragged breath, the kind you take when the pain is too deep to cry, when you can't cry because all you are is pain, and if you let some of it out, you might cease to exist.

Approximate author period: c. 1978 AD · modern

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Ally Condie
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Approximate author period: c. 1978 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from documented birth year 1978; activity date not established; Wikidata Q437370, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q437370 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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