And if I come to know too much about his madness he may destroy me in order to preserve his psychotic world view.

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And she's gone on to destroy me three more times.

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However, along with successfully destroying cancer, the treatment managed to effortlessly and successfully cause me to lose weight, destroy my taste buds, stripped my body of hair and forced me to learn the skill of vomiting quietly without choking and with pinpoint accuracy too.

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After the war, they tried to compromise me, to destroy my reputation.

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But what really worries me is if the cuts are so harsh that they suddenly destroy family budgets, meaning people won't be able to keep up mortgage payments.

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