Jiang says the anti-Purgatory souls do things that never happen in hell: they sing together, embrace one another, and touch each other affectionately.
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Embrace
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"That's right. They're happy. They're optimistic. Exactly. Yes. And also what are they doing that that never happens in hell? They're embracing each other...."
"...its source of light, revenge yourself on the presumptuous arms that embrace our daughters. Oh, pisistratus, and her lord seems to me benign and..."
"...write the in the ad so why didn't why didn't virgil embrace christianity the way that status embraced christianity versus a poet status is..."
"...oh, Mantua and I'm Sodelo from your own land and each embrace the other. Okay."
"...and they're both from, from the same place. And so they embrace each other and you can see how happy and enthusiastic Virgil is..."
"...he's telling us to be who we are and to uh embrace us ourselves be be more courageous"
"...I saw one of those spirits moving forward in order to embrace me. His affection. So great that I was moved to. Mine. I'm..."
"...can't do it in a blank slate you have to fully embrace someone and then defeat that person right it is very similar to..."
"...happens after black dev is the renaissance right when they fully embrace dante you guys understand the sequence of events 1321 donnie dies and..."
"...a broad ditch bent into an arc, so that it could embrace all of that plain, precisely as my guide had said before. Between..."
"...out against the good intention that made me so impatient to embrace them. Then I began, your presence in me, the state had fixed..."
"...figure out why that's the case. Why is it that you embrace homosexuality, it makes your society much more open, but it causes you..."
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