Edgar Allan Poe's The Other Side

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The Other Side

In life there is a silent rule that most people by human nature know to follow. Humans are born with this rule embed in their brain, but no one ever really says it out loud. There is a time in life that some people go near this barrier in life and walk along its edge. Just for a while though, they eventually back away from this barrier and go where they are supposed to be in life. People are supposed to know where to draw the line. There are some people in life that when they walk this barrier for a little too long they and they get a little too interested in what it’s about and the feelings they get when they nip at the line with their feet. Cross it just a little bit and jump back just to get the rush of what it feels like to do this thing that's not supposed to be done. This barrier is when kids grow older and when people say “boys will be boys”. As in when they burn ants with a magnifying glass or find out that when you
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It started out with killing bugs and bringing them back to life. Seeing how long it would take for them to drown. This started out as a seemingly small and no one noticed much of what was going on for it did not hurt anything. Though this did not last long for this small child liked the feeling of going to the line and touching it. For she started to walk into that line and she only jumped over that line once and that made her fall into the abyss of what humans who think they know better is insanity. This small child got caught torturing a dog and them all the as you say “sane” people got her help and told her how bad it was, to never do it again. So she went out with without the edge of wanting to touch that line for a long time. But there was this one occurrence that happened that stuck her face first on the other side of the line and she will never go there again for it is always too tempting to see the life drizzle out of someone's eyes as they go away to a different

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