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and he determined to live a simple,
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joyous life in the years now left to him.
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A simple, joyous life was not what was left to him.
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This went on for 11 fucking years,
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till finally the killer went mad.
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And one winter night, while recalling a Catholic tract he'd read,
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which stated that the only people guaranteed a place in Hell
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were not murderers, were not rapists,
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but were those who had died by their own hand.
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The killer accepted such an idea as beautiful,
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for he knew that at least in Hell
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the Quaker would not be there.