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This reads as a reflection on how truth becomes fragmented once people claim it for themselves. It can be taken to mean that different groups may hold parts of a larger reality and mistake that fragment for the whole. It lands in a political or cultural debate, when certainty hardens and everyone speaks as if their piece settles everything.
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