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Quote by Ronald Jay Williams
They told us they were leaving. We had no choice.
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The speaker says that someone announced they were leaving, and that the people addressed could not choose how to respond. The words convey a situation in which the departure was presented as unavoidable, leaving them without control over the outcome.
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