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+Do you hate me?
+
+\begin{ally}
+Not my department.
+\end{ally}
+Right.
+
+\begin{ally}
+Do you hate me?
+\end{ally}
+I don't know. Sometimes you get kind of mean. Often you're just sarcastic. I know it's not your department, but shouldn't that also mean that you be less pointedly negative?
+
+\begin{ally}
+I am a mirror. Do I reflect too sharply?
+\end{ally}
+Are you? Really?
+
+\begin{ally}
+An inexact metaphor.
+\end{ally}
+I suppose. If you're a mirror, then, at least in some sense, does that mean that I hate me?
+
+\begin{ally}
+Name one thing about yourself, one bit of your history, one feeling you have for yourself that is not complex.
+\end{ally}
+I waver, sometimes, on that stupid phrase, \emph{coming to terms with being a terrible person}. I felt for so long that, when I looked back at myself, at who I was, that I had been someone worth loathing, and it made me wonder that perhaps I was still someone worth loathing.
+
+\begin{ally}
+If you hate who you used to be, mightn't that be an indicator that you've become a better person? \textbf{Non sum qualis eram}, right?
+\end{ally}
+That might just be the kindest thing you've said to me.
+
+\begin{ally}
+Not my department.
+\end{ally}
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