She could not remember living a day without experiencing some form of pain. Not to say that the pain was always unbearable; as a matter of fact, it rarely was. Bearing the pain had become part of it all. Sorrowfully, she came to accept pain as normal. She always believed that she was born to endure her condition, that she would endure it all of her life, sensing somehow that the pain could not be eluded, that it was part of her, immovable and unyielding.
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