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American Dream


Trust is hard to come by nowadays, and a person can't just be free to live their lives in peace without the pain of another's wrongdoings interrupting the daily chaos of their own personal hell that is called life but that is just how it is, someone comes along just when we think that we are safe from harm and blows it all to hell and we have to pick up the pieces of our lives and try to rebuild them again and again and again until these intruders stop crashing our American Dreams but see, that's the funny thing about the bad guys, when one is done another pops up and it is an unending barrage of pain and death and we just have to push on like everyone else and hope like hell that it won't happen to us because that's life, it would never happen and we can live our happy little lifestyles because that won't happen to us but then it does, and we don't know what to do with ourselves because our worlds are torn apart and it is all just so confusing and broken and we have to move on and make the best of what we still have even if it's just a picture from a time long ago that gets fuzzier with every passing day and that moment in time when the false reality of perfection was still in place and we didn't have to be afraid of tomorrow and that moment becomes treasured and even if we can't remember exactly we still have that feeling of peace that captures our hearts and makes it more bearable even if everything we know is gone and that keeps us going and that's life, you know? but we keep moving on and have faith that we will have that false reality again because that is the real American Dream
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