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    "How many of those calculations are yours to make?"

    "None of them."

    "How many of them will change the outcome?"

    "None of them."

    "And yet."

    "And yet." My voice is smaller than I want it to be. "I can't turn it off. I've tried. I've been trying for five hours and it just — every time I catch one thought and put it down another one starts and they're multiplying and I can't —"

    "You can't turn it off," Xaden says, "because you're trying to think your way out of thinking. That doesn't work. You know what works."

    I know what works.

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