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Sit down, take a deep breath and make sure you are concentrating. This story will be short and dark but make no mistake, it will not be an easy read. Within, there are truths and as we all know; some truths are harder to swallow than others. Ones about life are the hardest of all.

Now let us begin.

Look at the small gang of thugs huddling in the shadows of an alley. None any older than 20 summers and each with darkness in their heart born of neglect and…