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Chapter 33
There are things in life that we never would understand. Things would sometimes drive us to act drastically. Instances, such as people love to call fate, destiny, or happenstance. Whatever that is, people love to blame it for their mistakes.
Maybe that is true. Maybe the situation that a person go through in life pushes him to do bad things. What do they call it? Nature versus nurture. It has been a long ongoing debate about a person's actions and characteristics. Many say that a person is born the way he is. But there are also many that say a person is shape by life. Pain that he has to endure, struggle that he has to survive.
But Amara thinks otherwise. For her, what people does is what people choose. Whenever a person is face with a situation, he will also be faced with a choice. Do the right thing, even though it's hard, or choose what's wrong, especially if it's easy. Just like her. Through the course of her life, Amara was faced with many decisions.
The fi
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