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Emotional honesty transcends reality; it's what allows disbelief to be suspended and yet what makes a story stay true.

- Greg Rucka
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Emotional honesty transcends reality; it's what allows disbelief to be suspended and yet what makes a story stay true.

Emotional honesty transcends reality; it's what allows disbelief to be suspended and yet what makes a story stay true.

Emotional honesty transcends reality; it's what allows disbelief to be suspended and yet what makes a story stay true.

Emotional honesty transcends reality; it's what allows disbelief to be suspended and yet what makes a story stay true.

Emotional honesty transcends reality; it's what allows disbelief to be suspended and yet what makes a story stay true.

Emotional honesty transcends reality; it's what allows disbelief to be suspended and yet what makes a story stay true.

Emotional honesty transcends reality; it's what allows disbelief to be suspended and yet what makes a story stay true.

Emotional honesty transcends reality; it's what allows disbelief to be suspended and yet what makes a story stay true.

Emotional honesty transcends reality; it's what allows disbelief to be suspended and yet what makes a story stay true.

Emotional honesty transcends reality; it's what allows disbelief to be suspended and yet what makes a story stay true.

Emotional honesty transcends reality; it's what allows disbelief to be suspended and yet what makes a story stay true.

Emotional honesty transcends reality; it's what allows disbelief to be suspended and yet what makes a story stay true.

Emotional honesty transcends reality; it's what allows disbelief to be suspended and yet what makes a story stay true.

Emotional honesty transcends reality; it's what allows disbelief to be suspended and yet what makes a story stay true.

Emotional honesty transcends reality; it's what allows disbelief to be suspended and yet what makes a story stay true.