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I need.


You need to make money.

You need to change your life.

You need religion.

You need to be better.

You need to be skinny.

You need to fit in.

All of these voices telling me what I need.

But if I stop and stand still, they all fall away.

What I need can only be known by me.

 

 

 

 

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