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document.writeln(" Risk ");
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document.writeln(" To fully live,
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document.writeln(" to fully love,
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document.writeln(" to get close to someone,
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document.writeln(" Is to become vulnerable
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document.writeln(" and risk getting hurt.
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document.writeln(" But to stay in my shell
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document.writeln(" where I feel
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document.writeln(" is a greater risk by far\'€”
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document.writeln(" For to risk nothing
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document.writeln(" Instead of living fully
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document.writeln(" I\'ll be dying slowly
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document.writeln(" And never will discover
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document.writeln(" the joy of loving nor the high
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document.writeln(" achievement of becoming
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document.writeln(" all that I was meant
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document.writeln(" \'€“ Dick Innes
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