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The path from guilt to disdain is an easy one to walk. It's much, much more tolerable to start thinking up reasons why someone may have deserved what was done to them, and get the universe back into alignment that way. After all: Duane was no perfect being. As far as Lemuel's concerned, everything he'd ever wanted was always handed to him on a silver-- no, a gold platter.