The simulation became reality, and optimism became the awful truth: We were not prepared.

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Armstrong eventually learned the awful truth from a neighbor.

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But it is undeniably true that her shop did an awful job in telling the public the truth about OSI.

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But it is more likely that future historians will note that, for all its shortcomings, it unearthed a sizeable chunk of truth about the country's awful past, and did so on a budget barely large enough to buy every South African a Coke.

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Which means that an awful lot of people are going to be disappointed when the truth comes out.

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