193. Tears

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You had never been one to cry a lot, or very often, but now, you could not stop the tears from streaming down your face.

And while I had never been one to condone such uninhibited display of emotion, I could not help but feel that it might have been... unnatural not to cry in such dire circumstances.

Indeed, where I, being a mere robot, have never quite understood the ways of human beings, this I could comprehend.

In fact, it had been the first thing ever taught to me: when you lose something very dear to you, nothing cleanses you like tears. 

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