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…showed last 75 words of 1117 total…his version of the war had; and all of his other falsehoods. He could have been fine with only a few harmless deceptions, but he had too many that were too prominent. All of the sudden he had to face every truth he had avoided over the past years, and it was too much. It was this evasion of realism, the very trait that he had been so loved for, that led to his destruction.