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Everything has been destroyed; everything has been taken from us.
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The speaker describes total loss. “Everything” is repeated to stress that nothing seems left untouched, while “taken from us” presents the loss as something imposed on a shared group rather than experienced by one person alone. The words express devastation and powerlessness without naming what was destroyed or who caused it.
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