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at top wooden the nights were always
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especially cold we would sleep on
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concrete floors with straw pillows and
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blankets were forbidden many of the
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students would opt to do their chores in
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the middle of the night in an attempt to
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stay warm and then try to steal sleep
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during meditation in the warmer
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afternoons of course po was aware of
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this and every so often would pluck a
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perpetrator from morning exercise and
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beat him severely it's a risk many
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children took for it is very difficult
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to sleep when you are cold but I wanted
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to feel like a weapon not to have a
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weapon or use a weapon I wanted to be
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and feel like a weapon when I walk the
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streets I feel a way most men can never
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feel and to do that I have endured
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10,000 cold nights when I graduated as a
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master of wooden I spent many years
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roaming from town to town one day I fell
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in love she said she would stay with me
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forever sickness and health no matter
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what that I am the sword and she is the
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sheath and we need each other I believed
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her she believed her so I rented a small
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room concrete floor and straw pillow I
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forbid us to touch only body heat can be
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shared she asked how long we must do
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this and my answer was simple until
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Mastery is attained when I woke the
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following morning she was gone I never
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saw her again I believe she loved me I
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believe she wanted me but there is a
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difference between the wants and needs
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of a normal person and a master such as
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myself when I hear others talk of love I
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pity them how can you be in love on
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expensive holidays and sharing takeaway
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none of you you are in love not to the
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standard of wooden doubt me Place her on
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a concrete floor with a straw pillow
