Note to reader: The author wishes to dedicate these works to Joshua Wilkerson; furthermore, to all those who have elicited love and hatred, joy and jealousy, bliss and agony, comfort and fear, contempt and awe, in short, those who have ruptured, for better or for worse, the mundane and lackluster regularity of the ripples of life ... Thank you, for you are the inspiration.

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