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I'm sold. I fought the war. I hope to win. And I won.

Hello and welcome to season 6 and the final episode of 2019, episode 153 of Sword and Scale,

a show that reveals that the worst monsters are real.

Well, here we are in the final episode of 2019. And in case you haven't noticed, there has been a bit of a common theme at the latter part of this season.

And that's to stop being dicks to each other.

Look, we all have to live here on this planet.

And sometimes we get so consumed with how we've been wronged that

we become blind to our own actions and what we do to others. During this holiday season,

let's take a minute to reflect on our own actions and see if we can enter the new year

as reinvented individuals. Let's leave behind all this horrible fucking toxicity online

and realize that at the core, even if we disagree with each other, we're all just human

beings and we all deserve a little compassion. Or don't.

I don't know.

I'm not your dad.

But this next story is very much about that sentiment.

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Sword and Scale Daily and Sword and Scale Rewind.

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