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I still wouldn't have tried to run from the mistakes of the past and not claimed the land. It's honestly very stupid of Ike to ignore the foundation of what the land could do. I do completely understand that the land has bad history, but leaving the land to rot in its old, bad history instead of rewriting the land's history yourself is not really an answer, is it?

PS I commented on Natalie and Zelda's posts.

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  1. Zelda PeachJanuary 29, 2018 at 10:42 PM

    I feel like it is more of an issue of being constantly reminded of what had happened on that land. No matter what Ike or anybody else did, no one could wash away the sins that filled that house and land. I sympathise with Ike in the way that he thought the only true answer was to let nature consume that land, as if it all had never happened.

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