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    His hands were made for something else. They could love, offer sparing yet fervent tenderness, and help the weak and needy. But over the long years lived solely for himself, for his own sated and cruel pleasure, Shadow had become utterly unrecognizable, even to himself. His name people feared to utter in the dim light of the saloon, so abhorrent was this hedgehog. And yet the great river of time, erases even things such as him. People began to forget him, as one forgets a bad dream after the morning dawn. A child of his own flesh appeared in Shadow’s life. As if fate itself had given him a chance to cleanse his rotting sins. But his crimes remained an eternal scar, seared into the memory of many with unbearable pain. And even in his own hardened soul, there, where now a candle flickers before a child’s cradle, a love so perverse took up eternal residence that he himself feared it.

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