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I will go out to The One who can fight. I will find The Enemy who is worthy of Danny.

These are Danny's last words. He speaks them, table leg brandished overhead, at his party after challenging everyone in the world to fight him, if they dared. No one responds, and with these words, Danny rushes out of the house and into the gulch to his death. No one is sure whether he actually engaged in battle with some supernatural enemy or if he simply fell the forty-feet to the bottom of the gulch. All that anyone heard was a final scream of defiance. Finding his youth gone and nothing left for him to do in the world, Danny decided to cheat death out of the long, slow, painful, and meaningless end that it had prepared for him, and die in a spectacular final burst of defiance.

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