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It all came crashing on me: I was dying. The scorching pain on my chest was as real as it could be, that bullet had penetrated my heart and it was giving me a slow and painful death. I could hear their laughter, that sound of satisfaction after accomplishing their mission. They knew it was just short moments before I completely died, and that made them treasure that moment, tattoing the sounds of my screams and the image of my twisting my whole body out of pain to their minds.

I suddenly hear an alarm go off, and it startled us all, making us wonder where it came from, until I open my eyes and realize it was all that same dream I have every other night, and the alarm was just indicating my day had started.

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