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Gaugamela

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2. I was an actor in my twenties. I was actually quite good at it, as my friends at that

Reply to multigraincracker (Reply #1)

Mon Feb 23, 2026, 12:05 AM

21 hrs ago

time would attest. It helped a lot, but it didn’t fix it. These things can become manageable, but they never go away. But I suspect we all have these defining experiences which become private mythologies. Some are darker than others.

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