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If This Stands
Colophon I’ve never done a lot of things this thing demands of me. Briefly, no longer trapped in a pleasant dream, I can work a little more towards making it reality. Contents If This Stands. © 2026 by Christopher X Sullivan. All rights reserved.
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Chapter 1: Author’s Bio Thank you for reading. Stay safe out there. Stand strong. I sliced and diced myself into this current book because I was writing so fast, so there’s a lot of me in here. If you want my author’s bio, check out It’s
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Afterword It’s not about quality. It’s when the pieces falling into place are all lateral moves; that’s when I know the end is near. And then when I compare what is there with what was upstairs, despair. It’s not good enough. Not by a long shot.
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Finale The Twin Flames are what hold the Door, And give us the grace to move towards, A compromise with no fixed conclusion, Other than a more perfect union. Where all Men are created equal, Where a Right for one, is a Right for all. But free men will fight
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Part V Stand strong and the doorframe will not fall, But the Twin Flames must find a home within us all, In one wing: Meet people where they are, Why do things change? Why make it so hard? And on the other side stands equal rights, With the arc of
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Part IV Free men will fight their liberties, When their victories fade from living mem’ry. They’ll look, from shoulder to shoulder, And see chains where there is only duty and honor. “Cast these chains aside, I am no slave,” But with no history, he is easily made, To
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Part III There’s nothing more dangerous, Than a humiliated man, Who will take what is done to him, And send it on again. There’s nothing more humiliating, Than a hero’s betrayal, When values are sacrificial, In the Law of the Jungle. There’s no deeper betrayal, Than
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Part II To a king, it doesn’t matter what you say, Only at the end of the day, you will obey: Have your little arguments, your athletics, Your little writings, your entertainments, But at the end of the day, you will obey. We owe so much to Christianity, For
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Part I We open this story as if it’s the greatest ever told, With maybe the greatest heroes we’ve ever known, The Door first held open by George Washington, So we the people run things from the top to the bottom. It’s how a man of modest
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Preamble Gather ’round children, here’s what’s in store, Two-fifty years of history about a special Door, It’s a Freedom Door for a Freedom Nation, And we vow to hold it, for the next generation, It’s a compromise with no fixed conclusion, Other than a more perfect
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If This Stands Contents If This Stands. © 2026 by Christopher X Sullivan. All rights reserved.
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