It's impossible to have a creature that physical and spiritual size in your home and not have it leave a gaping wound when it's excised.

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Her first operations closed a gaping wound in her scalp, enabling her to close her eyes and blink, and straightened her arms which had become bent in the fire.

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That was like putting a Sponge Bob band-aid on a gaping surgical wound.

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Lower Manhattan healed more quickly around its gaping wound than anyone would have thought possible, with a flourishing of housing, restaurants, cultural facilities, and parks.

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