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Post by Teja on Jul 6, 2015 18:44:52 GMT -5
"Do you get them often? Stress headaches."
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Jul 6, 2015 18:46:18 GMT -5
"I didn't always, but having the bridge of one's nose shattered will do that."
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Post by Teja on Jul 6, 2015 18:48:21 GMT -5
"Oh. Makes sense. I see. Poor you."
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Jul 6, 2015 18:49:22 GMT -5
He laughed again.
"It's all right. It could have been much worse."
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Post by Teja on Jul 6, 2015 18:53:15 GMT -5
"Things always could be. I suppose it's no use telling you that doesn't mean you can't be upset over what things are. By all accounts, preaching that it's always within one's abilities to better oneself no matter what one has been dealt is a Big Thing of yours."
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Jul 6, 2015 18:59:41 GMT -5
"You're being rather dramatic," he laughed. "I wouldn't say stress headaches are worth the upset to start with."
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Post by Teja on Jul 6, 2015 19:00:36 GMT -5
"Oh, I'm not dramatizing stress headaches. I'm making fun of your body-building pamphlets."
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Jul 6, 2015 19:02:38 GMT -5
"Well," he said wryly, "positive thinking has its uses."
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Post by Teja on Jul 6, 2015 19:05:01 GMT -5
"Yet, somehow, now that I know you I find you aren't much of a positive thinker."
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Jul 6, 2015 19:07:05 GMT -5
"I don't think positivity happens on its own, if that's what you mean."
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Post by Teja on Jul 6, 2015 19:16:28 GMT -5
"You do have a knack for making both surviving and thriving sound easy, but miserable states of affairs."
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Jul 6, 2015 19:19:19 GMT -5
He laughed again, but it turned into a sigh.
"Ah, yes. Marketing versus reality."
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Post by Teja on Jul 6, 2015 19:20:59 GMT -5
The teasing laughter in her own voice subsided. "Have you always been like that, or have you ever once enjoyed anything?"
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Jul 6, 2015 19:26:34 GMT -5
"I enjoy a great number of things-"
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Post by Teja on Jul 6, 2015 19:38:06 GMT -5
"A great number?" She widened her eyes, the effect of which, while not visible to him, spread to the inflections of her voice. "You mean possibly more than four?"
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