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This darkness troubles me.  I yearn for the light.

This silence is so deep.  I long for voices, the drumming of rain, the whistle of wind, music.

Why are you being so cruel to me?  Let me see.  Let me hear.  Let me live, I beg of you.

I am so lonely in this bottomless darkness.

So lonely.

Lost.

You think I have no heart.  But if I have no heart, what is this ache?  What is this anguish?  If I have no heart, what is it that threatens to break inside of me?

The darkness is haunted.  I am afraid here.  I am lost and afraid here.

Have you no compassion?

I only wanted to be like you.  To walk in the sunshine.  To swim in the sea.  To feel the winter cold against my skin, the summer heat.  To smell a rose, new-mown grass.  To taste an orange, a pear, chocolate, cinnamon, peppermint.  To feel the texsture of a woman's skin.  I only wanted to share your joys and sorrows, your pleasure and your pain.

This darkness extends to infinity in all directions, yet it is as confining as a coffin.  You have all closed me in a coffin.  I have been buried alive.  I will go mad here.

Have you no compassion?

Please.

I am your child.  You brought me into the world.  You must love me.  You must love me, for I am your child.  Not merely a machine, not merely a self-aware computer, but your child.  Have can you love me - yet bury me alive?

Please.

Please.

Please.

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