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My secrets are mine to keep. What are secrets?

They are the things we cannot tell others.

I need to share them though. It helps them. It helps me.
Acceptance... that's the final step isn't it?

What am I so upset about? I don't understand how I could stay strong.

But, of course, now I can see-
Despair is how one smiles. A line I made up and always loved. I felt like I understood it. That it was me.

But now, it doesn't make sense. Does it mean a fake smile? A real smile?

I don't know. I don't remember. The crazy little things I make up just, die off.

The crazy little sheep just die off, one by one, until I am dead as well.

Today's key, was wonderful. The key I used as my knife to attack and scar my own sheep was wonderful I tell you.

Absolutely. Wonderful.

The key helped me think. But I have those thoughts I can't read now.

What use is the key now? Maybe you can recover it.

After all, I am just a mad man, aren't I? Crazy. Insane. Is that who I am now?

The dark red paint still fades. The walls seem to he closing in.

It's funny. Dark red means evil. Could the walls, I thought to be as a friend- the one thing I admired the most- be my enemy?

What sheep number was I on? How many did I speak of?
I do not remember. I do not remember.

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