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      "text": "\"All the people you meet here have one thing to teach you.\" Eddie was skeptical. His fists stayed clenched. \"What?\" he said. \"That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.\"",
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