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NoUsername
Since: May, 2012
19th Apr, 2021 08:53:10 PM
My Greatest Failure or The Atoner on a national level, i'd guess
Characters/the main ruling body of people are deeply ashamed and guilty about/over a horrific, morally compromising event that happened in their country's past, like modern day Germany being ashamed of the Holocaust or the United States being ashamed over slavery.