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  "text": "Maybe it was written on my face that I'd become aware of human complexity - that's a kinder word than \"deceit\".",
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      "text": "Ghosh sighed. \"I hope one day you see this as clearly as I did in Kerchele. The key to your happiness is to own your own slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and the ones you don't. If you keep saying your slippers aren't yours, then you'll die searching, you'll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more. Not only your actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.\"",
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