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Toya

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What are you...?
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Toya's Father

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Keep your door closed.
Your voice carried throughout the house.
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Toya

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I'm sorry...
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Toya's Father

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It's fine. Also...
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Toya's Father

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Your room's a mess...
Why don't you clean up a little?
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Toya

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I will...
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Toya

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(What's he doing in my room...?)
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Toya

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(He hasn't been here since I stopped playing classical music.)
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Toya

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(So what brings him here now...?)
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Toya

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(No, wait...)
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Toya

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(This is my chance to ask him.)
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Toya

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Dad...
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What is it?
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Toya

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Please let me ask you again.
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Toya

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Tell me what you think of my song.

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Toya's Father

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Oh? Does that mean it's a little more tolerable now?
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Toya

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Not quite...
I'm still doing a lot of trial and error...
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Toya's Father

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Sounds like you're still wasting time.
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Toya

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...
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Toya

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I haven't been wasting my time.
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Toya

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I've been trying any and all of the solutions that I could come up with. Now, I think I'm actually close to finding the answer...
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Toya's Father

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Then, you should be focusing all of your attention on that.
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Toya

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I have been...
But I'm still getting stuck...
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Toya

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Which is why I need you to listen to it.
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Toya

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I can't think of any other way at this point...
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Toya's Father

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Honestly...
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Toya's Father

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You're going to make me do all the work?
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Toya

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No, that's not what I'm doing...
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Toya

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I'm just trying to use anything I have available to me in order to not disappoint my teammates...!
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Toya

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Because I don't want to run...
Not like I did that time...!
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Toya

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I don't want to...
But the past continues to haunt me and prevent me from moving forward.
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It keeps telling me that I have no right to be in charge of expressing my team's resolve in the form of a song because I ran from music once already...!
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Toya's Father

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Toya...
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I can't get away from it...
No matter how hard I try...
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Toya

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I've tried and tried, but I haven't been able to do what Ken and his team did...!
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Toya's Father

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Ken? His team...?
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Toya

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The people who put on the event we're trying to surpass...
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Toya

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A member of their team became ill and ended up passing away... The event they put on and the songs they created for it were all meant to commemorate her life.
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Toya

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What they sang, how they sang...
The atmosphere and energy they produced blew us all away.
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Toya

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And I've been tasked with writing songs that can help surpass that...
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If I don't, our dream might end right here, and it could never end up coming true...!
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Toya

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Which is why I need to hear your opinion, Dad! Tell me anything you can!
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Toya's Father

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Your past is haunting you...?
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Toya's Father

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That explains why your song seemed to lack pride.
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Toya

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...
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Toya's Father

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The problem might be your understanding of what happened.
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Toya

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Huh...?
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Toya's Father

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Yes, you ran.
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Toya's Father

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That's the truth.
And there's nothing you can do to change the past.
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However...
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That does not mean I think you lack what it takes.

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Toya

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What it takes...?
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Yes.
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Toya's Father

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I am saying that you still may have what it takes to go up against this Ken fellow and his team.
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Toya

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No, how can you say that...?
You've never met them before.
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Even so, I seriously doubt you're going to lose to them.
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But why...?
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Because of what you sacrificed.
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You gave up some of the most important years of your life in order to train to become a classical musician.
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Twelve years.
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That is how much time you spent living and breathing classical music.
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From early in the morning to late at night, you spent hardly any time playing or sleeping.
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Oh...

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Toya

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I mean, that was because...
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I know.
It wasn't exactly the life you wanted.
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It was the furthest thing from “normal” as you indicated that time.
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But the fact remains that you spent an enormous amount of time studying classical music.
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With serious intent.
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Toya

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(The life I wanted...)
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(Yes, he's right. I just...)

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Toya's Father

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No. Again.
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Little Toya

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I'm sorry...
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Toya's Father

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Again.
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Little Toya

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But my fingers...
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Toya's Father

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No. Again. Until you get it right.
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Little Toya

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Okay...

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Little Toya

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*Sigh*
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Toya's Father

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You finally got it right...
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We'll stop here for today.
It's time for dinner.
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Little Toya

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Wait, but...
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Toya's Father

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What's wrong?
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Little Toya

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Yes, I was able to play it all the way through just now...
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Little Toya

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But it didn't sound as pretty as I'd hoped...
So, um...
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Little Toya

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Can I try it one last time?
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Toya's Father

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Alright...
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Toya

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(During that time of my life...)
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(I only cared about classical music.)
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So, why?
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Why do you keep dwelling on your decision to run?
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Because...

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Is this really it for you...?
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Because... I...
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I disappointed you...
I completely dashed your hopes for me...
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Yes, I did have high hopes for you.
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As I heard you play, I came to believe that you'd find the quintessential truth.
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But you ended up choosing a different path in life. As a result, I felt something similar to disappointment...
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...
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But is that all you view that part of your life as?
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Pain, suffering and disappointment?
Don't you remember anything else from those days?
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I...

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Little Toya

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Wow...!
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Toya

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I...
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Toya's Father

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As for me...
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I'm proud of the way you spent so much of your life studying classical music and I believe it's a beautiful achievement.
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Toya

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What...?
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It doesn't matter how things ended.
There's nothing for you to be ashamed of.
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If anything, it's the opposite.
That time you spent...
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No one can take that away from you.

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...!
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It doesn't matter who these people you speak of are or how much time they spent on their music. You have what it takes to go up against them.
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Because your past will allow you to do so.
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That is what I believe...
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I think I've overstayed my welcome...
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I'll leave now.
But don't forget to clean your room.

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Toya

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...
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I have what it takes...?
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Toya

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Me...?
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Toya

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Is that true...?
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Toya

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(For the longest time, I thought...)
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Toya

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(I thought I'd never be able to erase the past. That I'd always be the disappointment who ran away.)
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(But...)
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(As it turns out, I have nothing to be ashamed of.)
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(All I did was study music night and day.)
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(And even if my joints ached or I had a high fever, I'd go over the music in my head.)
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(Not a day went by without me thinking about music. That much I know for certain. It consumes my life.)
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(I'd been studying how to play ever since I was very little...)
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(Nothing can change that...)
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(And my past is now going to allow me to do this...)
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To take on Ken, his team and their ironclad resolve.

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