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When I opened my eyes against the morning sun I knew things were different. I knew /I/ was different. Reborn, but not shiny and new.
I felt like my old self again, with all the good and bad that brings. With that familiar hunger burning in my chest, I was reunited with my constant companion.
I’d been fighting against who I really was for so long I had feared that I was lost forever. But now I knew what I had always thought to be true; a tiger cannot change its stripes.
I haven’t been this excited in years, so let’s go get into trouble.
Sometimes too much is never enough.