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I have long feared that my sins would return to haunt me, and the cost would be more than I could bear.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker admits to a long-standing dread that past wrongdoing will come back to torment them, and that the price would be heavier than they could endure. It is a sombre confession of guilt, treating old sins as debts that may one day fall due.
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