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SURVIVAL. That’s the key to anything that you have to deal with in life. You have to get used to people stabbing you in the back (metaphorically), with people and animals that you care for and possibly even loved one's’ death. You need to get used to all the stuff that life throws at you. You have to build barriers around yourself. I did this in grade school. It helped me avoid trouble with other people and calamitous social relationship situations. The cost of this was the fact that you have a small group of friends. I only had four friends when I was at my elementary school. In middle school, I had five. In high school, I had seven fiends (two of them retained from middle school). These people, the ones that I trusted in high school, are still my friends today. I keep in touch with them, emailing them, sending a letter or postcard. These are the people that were the only ones that I knew I could trust because we knew each other's habits and tendencies and what we liked to do. We were almost like brothers to one another. One day, I received a notice in the mail that my dear friend, Michael, knew that he was being followed and that he had a feeling that he was going to be killed by whoever was behind his tracking. I immediately chartered a flight on my personal jet, raising hell to get to his humble abode as fast as …show more content…
I emailed you via my secure communications network. I have a feeling that I was being followed around and that someone had hacked my communications network. I did a system reset and even got a new network name and password. Still, some of my files from my computer went missing. Even shows that I had on my DVR disappeared,” he remarked. “I know that I didn’t delete them from there because I sent them to a 1 TB external storage disc. Would you happen to have any idea as to how this is

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