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Election Night - A reminder

Friendly reminder (with links!)

This is a president that has:

been impeached for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, the 3rd president in US history to be impeached 

Articles of Impeachment Against Donald John Trump: https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/hres755/BILLS-116hres755enr.pdf

How did he get away with it? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/05/how-donald-trump-got-acquitted-after-impeachment

has 26 counts of sexual misconduct against him https://www.businessinsider.com/women-accused-trump-sexual-misconduct-list-2017-12 

And consistently shows misogynistic behaviour (refer to his twitter, or literally the hundreds of compilation videos online, or the ads run by his own party against him: https://lincolnproject.us/video/mirror/)

“avoided paying federal income tax in 10 of the 15 years preceding his election. In 2016, he paid $750 in federal income tax, less than one night’s stay in a suite at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C.” (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/three-interpretations-of-trumps-tax-records/616570/) 

The full report by the NY Times: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/27/us/donald-trump-taxes.html

has arguably led the worst response to the novel Coronavirus pandemic on the global stage, which has caused 1.2 million deaths to date, however he continues to play down the threat of the virus 

Timeline of intel conveyed to the president and how he’s conveyed it to Americans: https://doggett.house.gov/media-center/blog-posts/timeline-trump-s-coronavirus-responses

An other timeline: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/04/15/835011346/a-timeline-of-coronavirus-comments-from-president-trump-and-who

doesn’t believe in climate change and has very little regard for the environment

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2017/03/how-trump-is-changing-science-environment/

Openly racist (I’m not linking anything, just look at his twitter) 

but he did say to a white supremacist group to 'stand back and stand by’ (https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/proud-boys-trump-debate-1.5744467)

A huge hypocrite 

Ex: consistently denied vaccine efficacy and pushed the narrative that it causes autism, now views a vaccine as the cure to COVID-19, while I admit personal growth and education can shift someone’s views on a topic, considering his determination to steadily ignore scientific evidence up until a couple months ago and his consistent efforts to undermine his public health officials, I would argue that this is entirely politically motivated —> https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/09/health/trump-vaccines.html

is a well of misinformation 

Some of his most damaging claims include his insistence on the effectiveness of unproven coronavirus treatments, for instance the use of hydroxychloroquine or the antiviral cocktail manufactured by Regeneron: https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/trump-hails-experimental-treatment-for-his-virus-recovery-1.5136141

has weakened trust in political institutions by threatening the very foundations of democracy via tactics such as voter suppression and misinformation: https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/5/21499009/harvard-berkman-klein-center-paper-voting-misinformation-trump-tweets-media-framing 

not a team player (this is the nicest way I can put this)

again I look to his response to covid, simply because of how disastrous it’s been; he has undermined science and scientific institutions and subverts his own administration, holding gatherings without the use of social-distancing and mask and in Nevada, flaunted that state authorities failed to stop him https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02800-9

If this person showed up to a job interview, would you hire them? Would you let them babysit your children? If the answer is no, or if you hesitate in saying yes, why are you letting them run a country?

If you voted him in. Shame on you.

I can respect republican views, although they significantly differ from my own, I can understand and debate these points without hesitancy, we can talk about the pros and cons of different legislation and policies, etc. However, this election is not about supporting a political party anymore, this is about deliberately placing an abomination in office and making a mockery of the United States of America. The world believes you to be clowns and maybe that’s because you are.

Even if Biden wins based off of absentee ballots, the fact that this election has been so close, the fact that there is so much support for Mr. Donald J Trump and that we are seeing a repeat of 2016 voter distribution, makes me absolutely lose faith in the American People. WAKE UP.

PS: to all my babes struggling in the US and trying to grasp what is happening in your country, know that my thoughts lie with you, I am distraught at American news so I can only imagine what it feels like for it to be your national news.

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SHIP ANTHEMS

ROSS AND RACHEL ---> WITH OR WITHOUT YOU

NICK AND JESS ---> GREEN LIGHT

DAN AND PHIL ---> TOXIC

BELLAMY AND CLARKE ---> KNOCKING ON HEAVEN’S DOOR

The best will-they-won’t-they couples/soulmates have anthems.

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It’s the 10 year anniversary of 2009…

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Season 7?

What if Becho were to break up off-screen, like Murphy could come up to Bellamy as he was watching Echo and he says sorry about her. Bellamy says “it’s okay because it hadn’t felt right for a long time...” 

“Yeah things definitely changed when we got to Earth.” Murphy says. Bellamy looks at him surprised. 

“Do you ever wish we hadn’t gone back to the ground?” Bell asks.

“Sometimes. Things were simple there. But you’d never have found Octavia or Clarke again.“ Murphy mentions. Bellamy’s eyes wander to Clarke who’s fussing over Maddie as they all prep to leave for the anomaly. His eyes soften. He turns back to Murphy.

“Also, Monte’s algae.“ They both shudder.

~ A COUPLE EPISODES LATER~

Clarke’s been tossing and turning all night. Her mother’s death replays in her mind. Both her parents floated, She still remembers her mom’s, well Simone’s look of desperation as Clarke pushed her into the murderer that is space. Her mother’s body being sucked into oblivion.

Clarke gets up sweating, some air will do her good. She laces up her boots and goes outside. She sees a figure standing near the radios. She’d recognize that silhouette anywhere. She smiles and heads towards him.

“Can’t sleep?“ She asks as she nears him and immediately wants to facepalm herself, of course Bellamy can’t sleep, the last time he was here, he saw his sister get stabbed. Bellamy turns around and his eyes are welling with tears, it doesn’t look like he heard her question. Suddenly, Clarke realizes what he’s listening to.

It’d be so much easier if i knew you were alive. Her own voice cracks over the radio. Her eyes go wide. 

“You called me everyday for six years and then left me to die in the fighting pits.” He says looking at her.

“I’m-, I’m so sorry Bellamy.” Clarke stammers, bewildered.

“I’ve been here for the past hour, hearing your calls... Seems this thing picks up stuff from everywhere.” He says, a tear escaping him, “I would’ve left me to die in the fighting pits too.” He looks down. “I’m so sorry Clarke, for leaving you behind. I’m so sorry.” Clarke looks at him her shocked face dissolving and where she had felt frozen before, she can suddenly move. She quickly moves closer to him. 

“No no no no. You did the right thing and look I’m alive and so is everyone else.” her hands grabbing his face, so that he meets her eyes. He has to understand that she doesn’t blame him. “I never would’ve met Madi, it was hard at the beginning, it was, without you... and everyone else... but, I’m a mom now and I wouldn’t trade that for anything.” Bellamy’s eyes seem to be searching her face. Clarke’s breath hitches and she drops her hands. There’s a moment of silence, then...

“Clarke, I thought you were dead...” Bellamy starts.

“Well I did try to reach you.“ She says motioning to the radios. He chuckles, but becomes serious again.

“I almost lost you again.” He says. She nods her head.

“But you didn’t, you saved me Bellamy.“ She says, her eyes pleading him to understand.

“Both those times, I almost lost my mind.“ He says. Clarke’s mouth parts, but she doesn’t know how to respond. They both look at the radios, which continue to disrupt the silence between them with Clarkes voice.

Madi learned the alphabet today. Her english is improving so quickly. After a time, Bellamy chuckles, and looks down. Suddenly, his gaze lifts up and meets that of Clarke.

“Who would’ve thought that I’d fall in love with the Brave Princess.“  He says. Clarke’s eyes widen and she looks at him.

“And her the failed assassin.” Clarke whispers. The look Bellamy is giving her is so intense, she feels like there are raging dragons in her stomach.

“There you guys are!“ Bellamy and Clarke’s heads snap to Gabriel, who’s just come barging out of his tent. “I think I found something!“ He shouts and just as suddenly as he appears, he disappears back into his tent.

“I guess we should...“ Clarke nods towards the spot Gabriel was before.

“Yes, but before that...” And Bellamy takes a step to close the distance between them, a hand comes up to cradle her face and then his lips are on hers and the world crashes on Clarke. Her nerves are on fire. Her lips are tingling and her entire body feels hot, because Bellamy Blake is kissing her, her best friend is kissing her and she doesn’t know how to process this. So, she does the only thing she can... She kisses him back. 

She kisses him with over a century’s worth of pent up emotions, of unexpressed feeling. Her heart beats faster than a humming bird, or maybe that’s Bellamy’s heart... She doesn’t know where she ends and he begins, but it’s still not close enough. So, she pulls him closer, she kisses him like she’s always wanted to.

When they finally pull away, Bellamy tucks a stray hair behind her ear and they’re both grinning. In the background, the radio crackles, Nevermind. I see you. 

There’s a moment of silence where they just take each other in.

“So what now?“ Clarke asks.

“We do whatever the hell we want.“ Bellamy responds. Clarke laughs and grabs his hand, pulling him towards the tent she knows Gabriel is waiting for them. And for the first time since she left the Arc all those years ago, she knows things are going to work out. Bellamy loves her and she loves him and that’s enough.

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“imagine your otp”

i do. always. in literally every scenario.

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in sixth grade you were either a cucumber melon bitch or a warm vanilla sugar bitch

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I AM ABSOLUTELY LOSING MY MIND AFTER READING THIS PLEASE READ IT

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reblog if you too, are a formless blob

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Clearly Drake Bell is a Bellarke shipper

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Things I know about Clarke as someone who doesn’t watch the 100

Bisexual AF

Has a kid??? Not really clear on this one, but I think it’s her kid, or a kid she took in? There’s a kid. She loves the kid.

Her husband is big sad every time she “dies” which has been like once every season.

She doesn’t die.

Definitely had sex with that really hot chick who looks like the secret love child of Jason Mamoa and Wonder Woman.

Is the boss of the space cadets.

Some of the space cadets don’t like that she’s the boss of them.

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eliza: this is my ex-boyfriend, bob morley

bob: for the last time, stop introducing me like that!! excuse her, i’m her husband

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Little Text I wrote waaaay back when they released the teaser pics (you know the one of them around the campfire?)

Clarke you didn’t kill him. You didn’t kill him. Is all that was going through my head as my eyes flitted to Bellamy beside me. He was next to me, but so so so far.

Although it happened 125 years ago I still couldn’t get over it. Ha you’re hilarious I snorted to myself.

Apparently Bellamy couldn’t get over it too. Yeah that’s why he held you when Jordan played us Monty’s video.

My eyes flitted to him again, but he wasn’t staring at me, he wasn’t even staring at the fire and was instead looking out at the landscape. What I would give to know what was going on in his head… There was a time when I used to know exactly what he was thinking, but that phase was long past.

My eyes raked over his side profile. The beard he grew in the years we were apart, the fire cast shadows on his face, but his freckles were ever more prominent. God I had forgotten how many freckles he has. His unruly brown hair, that was currently being stroked by Echo. My eyes moved to her, only to realize she was already staring at me. The hatred in her eyes was unmistakable. I couldn’t blame her, I had left the guy she loved for dead.

My eyes moved back to the fire. Never in a million years did I think I would let Bellamy die.  I had let a village be bombed for him, I couldn’t even kill him to save the human race. Damn I’m pathetic… and a horrible person. I added as an afterthought.

I wonder what would’ve happened if he had never opened that door 131 years ago, if I had shot him. The Blakes would both be dead. I’d be a pariah and heartbroken— yeah as though you aren’t that now. But, I wouldn’t have been separated from my mom, “Wonkru” would never have happened, nor the cannabilism… But I wouldn’t have met Madi. I wouldn’t be a mom.

My head had gone through all of those scenarios in the 6 year period where it was just me and Madi on the surface of the earth. What if the shot hadn’t killed him, but just disabled him. He never would have forgiven me for Octavia’s death, but… No Madi, remember Madi Clarke.

I sighed. At least he was alive. That’s all I could tell myself. I looked at him again, Echo be damned, at least he was alive.

I still couldn’t get over the beard. He looked like a man now, no longer the reckless man-child, all heart and no brain, he’d been way back when. No, now he was a mature, self-assured individual and I’m sure the woman holding him is what led to that.  

I closed my eyes and looked at the ground. Damn I miss the days where I could suppress my feelings, where they didn’t affect everything I did. Didn’t they though Clarke?  

For once, I could utterly disagree with my internal voice. No, they didn’t. Even when I was with Lexa, she encouraged me to think with my head. My heart twinged. Her face flashed before my eyes, hair to the side, brown eyes wide filled with happiness and… love, lips parted in lust. How self-assured she’d become in bed. I smirked.

Then her face flashed before my eyes again, but this time dark blood pouring out of her mouth, eyes wide in shock and lungs heaving up in down, taking in her last breaths. I closed my eyes tighter, forcing the image out of my head. It’d taken me a long time for that not to be the thing I saw whenever I closed my eyes— well whenever I closed my eyes other images flashed by; the expanding bloodstain on FInn’s shirt when I stabbed him, Well’s makeshift grave, Anya’s mud-spattered face as she died, Jasper cradling Maya’s radiation-destroyed body, my dad’s face filling up the screens of the Ark knowing he’d be sentenced to death, the—

“Clarke?” I snapped out of my reverie.

“What?” I asked breathless

“We’ve been trying to talk to you for the past couple minutes,” Echo said with an edge to her voice,  “If you’re not alert Clarke you’ll put us all in danger.” I looked at her. There were so many things I wanted to say and even though my eyes flashed in anger, I exercised master restraint.

“You’re right. I’m sorry, it won’t happen again.” I said, trying my best to keep any anger out of my voice. She wasn’t worth it. I would not let her get the best of me. Not to mention, she was also right, we were on a foreign planet with who knows what out there and I couldn’t afford to be off my game… Man, what a familiar feeling, I snorted.

“Clarke?!” Echo said.

“Yes, yes, what were you talking about?” Shaw chuckled and I ignored Bellamy’s concerned eyes, I could feel his stare burning into my skin and I felt a blush rising to my cheeks, thank god I could blame it on the fire.

“Well, we were discussing as to where we should be headed tomorrow, downstream or upstream the river.” Miller said. I glanced at him.

“Wouldn’t upstream be best? There’s an advantage to higher ground.” I replied automatically.

“Yes, but as I was saying, downstream obviously will bring us to a larger body of water and that’ll be important for farming, not to mention that if we need to get away or cover our tracks we can just hope in and float or hike down.” She explained.

“While that might be true, we still don’t know if the water is drinkable, not to mention what’s the weather on this planet? If it’s flashfloods, we’ll be grateful for the higher ground.” I retorted.

“Bellamy already said that.” Echo say flatly.

“Oh. Well, then I agree with him.” I replied feeling my cheeks heat up. My eyes flickered to Bellamy to see him staring at me intensely. There was a flash of a smirk on his face and I looked away, the blush creeping up my neck.

“Figures.” Muttered Echo.

“Okay well let’s put it to a vote. Upstream?” Jackson said looking around. I raised my hand, so did Bellamy, Shaw and Miller. He paused, “I guess it’s decided.”

“Whatever.” Echo huffed and went back to stroking Bellamy’s hair.

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While being alone with Madi and my radio it had seemed simple.

We woke up in the morning and gather berries from the surrounding area, in later years, we’d make jam and spread it on edible bark. Once we’d had our breakfast, I’d teach Madi some theory, we’d go through English, history, science… all of the things I learnt on the Ark, I tried to teach her. Next, Wwed go swimming then we would dry off and have a quick lunch of smoked meat (whatever we caught the night before would have been stewing till we ate it).

In the afternoon, I’d move on to practical training, fighting skills, weapon making, sewing wounds, hunting and later, driving. Madi’s village was a peaceful refuge for vegetarians, from what I could deduce, so Madi knew a few things— mostly what she had learned on her own before I showed up. She was a star pupil, or maybe I was a good teacher? I think it was a bit of both.

In late afternoon, we’d set up camp, initially Madi would collect wood and eventually we’d start taking turns making food, we’d sharpen and clean our weapons and I would sneak off with my radio to chat with Bellamy. It didn’t take long for Madi to deduce what I was doing so this was unofficially declared the moment in the day for alone time.

For supper we’d eat a mix of the meat or fish we caught and some random vegetables that Madi had dubbed yellow strings. And then we’d get ready for bed. I would draw a bit, Madi would practice her writing as well as drawing the star maps I taught her and we’d end the night with my telling her stories about my friends. It was our quiet peaceful routine.

Quiet. Simple. Easy.

It was unlike anything I’d ever experienced. On the ark, although I’d had a pretty sheltered childhood, it was always about rationing, best behaviour at all times and a lot of wondering what earth was like. Not to mention the grief. The grief when my friends’ parents were sentenced to treason and got floated, grief for the nonstop bullying Wells and I got, grief for my dad getting floated, grief because I thought I was going to be floated…

When I finally made it to earth, the grief didn’t change. It became tenfold and next came stress, survival stress. Basically it was do or die. I ended up taking charge. I guess I had been bred for it. But, that’s essentially what happened. Of course Bellamy and I butt heads initially due to it. He was the de facto leader and I, princess (god I hate that nickname), swooped in to challenge his every move. Of course, it wasn’t my fault his every move was the opposite of what I thought needed to be done…

But then people started dropping like flies, we were picked off by the grounders one by one and our morals were questioned to the point that even calling them morals is a hoax you used to sleep at night.  Of course I also fell in love and had sex, etc.

Then our ‘reinforcements’ came and that ended up being a mess as well. I ended up killing the boy I loved and would later murder an entire mountain full of people.

I fell in love again and then watched that person die too. Then I had to worry about a stupid crazy homicidal robot starting a cult ridding people of free will.

And the last couple months before the Earth went to hell was spent on figuring out how to save the human race. Saving the human race was the mantra that had been ingrained in me from the very beginning. On the Ark, I learnt that nothing really mattered a part from saving the human race. Nothing else.

So when primfaya happened and I was the only person left on the surface of the earth (everyone else was either underground or in space)… Well, thank god for Madi because otherwise, I definitely wouldn’t of made it. My mentality of saving the human race transferred onto Madi. I became her default mom, and her, my daughter and she was all that mattered. Still talking to a preteen girl for 6 years wasn’t exactly socializing in my opinion.

Which is why it wasn’t only Madi and I. It was Madi, I and Bellamy, or rather a radio, but I just maintained the idea that he could hear me and couldn’t respond. I knew that was total bullshit, you don’t hang out with Raven Rayes for ages and not realize that the radio waves would not be making it past the radiation clouding the earth, let alone through space to the revived Ark.

Yeah no way he even knew I was alive. But, I pretended anyway, because the alternative— the idea that I truly was alone and couldn’t talk to Bellamy, or worse that Bellamy and the others hadn’t actually made it to safety— well there’s only so much a person can take before going insane. So, I spoke to my radio. I told Bellamy all of my fears, all of the little victories, like when Madi wrote her first English sentence or when I found the edible bark, I told him about the new discoveries and my theories on what to do next. I spoke to him about Lexa, and Finn, and Wells. I told him everything. In one of my loneliest (horniest) moments I told him the fact that I missed having sex, masturbation just wasn’t cutting it anymore (that was never mentioned again)…

So, seeing him again, after speaking to him everyday for 6 years? Well, that was a pretty massive shock to my system, not to mention that he had gotten even hotter during that time.

Those 6 years had given me plenty of time to deal with Lexa’s death and realize I was completely and utterly in love with Bellamy. Of course I also acknowledged that it was the Clarke of 6 years ago that was in love with the Bellamy of 6 years ago… Somehow that didn’t translate into my brain when I first saw him. Instead all I wanted to do was discreetly pinch myself, because there was no way he was here with me. The second was, this must be true because even my imagination wouldn’t have been able to fathom how hot he’d be with a beard. And we fell back into this routine of Clarke and Bellamy.

Quiet. Simple. Easy.

Granted we were also dealing with his sister, Octavia, turned overzealous-dictator, a shitton of ex-felons and a war on the last survivable place on earth… But it didn’t matter because it was Bellamy and I and we could do this.

At least I thought we could. That is until I saw Echo run into his arms for a PG13 make out session, that is until he called ‘spacecru’ his family and didn’t include me, that is until he betrayed me by turning my daughter into a weapon… putting her directly in the bloodthirsty vision of Octavia who’s homicidal tendencies seemed to have gone on steroids since having last encountered her above ground.

So I left him to die.

Alright I know, stupid move, clearly turning Madi into the head of Wonkru was the best, most nondestructive choice at the time, but I didn’t see it that way and I reacted brashly. I still needed to apologize for that I guess. It was interesting that he had forgiven me so quickly though, blaming it on my “mama bear instincts” (he finally recognized what Madi meant to me). The speed in which he had been quick to lose that grudge really proved to me that he definitely was no longer my Bellamy. He seemed to be a mature, level-headed, amazing man that I no longer knew. We are strangers. And that probably broke my heart more than seeing him with Echo did.

I removed my eyes from the fire and looked around me. Actually all of these people were strangers now and for the quadrillionth time since primfaya I felt like bawling my eyes out.

That was something I discovered during those 6 years—how utterly emotive I could be. Jeez the emotion oozing out of me disgusted me. But, because I was able to focus it on Madi all this time it was okay. Except Madi was still in cryosleep and I was here with a guy I might possibly still love, his girlfriend (who hated me), a random-ass stranger that was cool, and just an overall blast from the past couple of friends, not too mention I had just found out that two of my closest friends had lived an entire life together filled with happiness and a peaceful ending so that we could live, so that the human race could survive.

Yeah my poor isolated self could not keep up with the varying situations.

I got up, feeling angsty. I definitely needed to loosen some of the tension I felt building up.

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Perfection

The 100 Characters as John Mulaney Quotes

Diyoza:

Murphy:

Octavia:

Miller:

Raven:

Bellamy:

Niylah:

Jordan:

Clarke:

Abby:

Madi:

Shaw:

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You hear people named after every season (Winter, Summer, Autumn) except Spring, but the only people named after a month are named after spring months (April, May, June).

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This would be epic

if you’re reading this

a lump sum of money is on the way to you

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At this point all I want is for Clarke to run off with whoever is left that still loves and respects her (I guess just Madi? Abby? Bellamy? lmk if I'm forgetting anyone but at this point I think that's it lmao) and get the fuck away from everyone else so she can be hyped up like she deserves.

Petition for Clarke to run off into the woods of Sanctum society with Bellamy, Madi, and Jordan. They start living like a little family and no one is mean to each other ever, they all appreciate each other.

Bellamy builds them a cabin in the woods based on sketches of designs Clarke makes. Madi teaches Jordan how to hunt. Madi and Jordan swap stories they’ve heard from their parents and find it fun whenever they find discrepancies between Harper and Monty’s point of view and Clarke’s. (Clarke is never the hero in her own stories, but she is in Marper’s versions) They plant a garden outside their house in memory of Monty and Harper and it’s mostly filled with Sanctum plants, but there’s a little crop of algae that Jordan tends to (and yes, it tastes good to him, it’s all he’s ever known, okay?)

Bellarke is in love. Jordan and Madi are happy with their adoptive parents. All is well.

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the hero’s journey