"I hope I never smell the smell of apples again!" said Fili. "My tub was full of ut. To smell apples everlastingly when you can scarcely move and are c...
True courage is knowing not when to take a life, but to save one.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien ~
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True courage is knowing not when to take a life, but to save one.
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