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Imagine you just finished working your nine to five job and your boss is livid at you for not finishing your project by its deadline. You’re frustrated and want to get home. You stroll into the subway station and board the train en route to your house. You take a seat at the back of the train and just sit there with anguish on your mind. The train shuts its doors and the train starts moving forward. It’s a chilly winter evening and there's a thunderstorm brewing outside. The wind is fierce, ricocheting bullets of water onto the outside of the train’s windows, only to splatter into minuscule droplets of rain upon contact. Even though the windows can’t be opened, it feels as if the power of the storm surged right through the weak gunmen of insulation,

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