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> The hardest thing is the sudden brutality of it. You may not get a chance to say goodbye to people.

I had something similar happen to me, and I realized that being unilaterally excluded from a social group is basically exile, which historically was one form of the death penalty [1].

[1] Socrates, for example, was supposed to choose exile, but chose poison to make a point.



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