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Let Me Live In Peace: No

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If you love me, let me live in peace. I don't understand. Jackie Leven, though he couldn't find the source of the quote in a quick search. Not that it mattered. Touched, that's what they used to call it. He had gone to the edge of the precipice and stared over the edge; at the ordinary life. And all his life he had said, all I want is to be an ordinary person. Which, when he got there turned out to be a nightmare of ordinariness, and he had retreated back from the edge of that grey, unilateral nightmare, a place of darkness and boredom. And so here they were. The Collapse of Empire, the American Empire, had occupied his thoughts for a time, and so when the truly historic Biden Trump Debate came along, he couldn't help but watch, and then watch all the aftermath, after the realisation came that they had been lying all along. Lying all along. That the man was in the midst of shuffling off the mortal coil, and out of their own self interest, or self preservation, those aro...