The Act of Purifying
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Competitive sports are dead. Poetry is deader. Free will is a thing of the past. In a world now striving to become a utopia, there is little room for unacceptable behavior or expression. Thus, the government created the Houses of Purification, the most extreme of correctional facilities ever made, to fix these "errors". But there exists a brave few who resist the totalitarian regime, and travel the road of rebellion to the Underground.
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