-ness​ ; nominalizer for adjective

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かつての 自分じぶんかげさいなまれ、もがきくるしむ。
そのゆがみこそきみうつくだった。
わすれたのであれば、 思い出おもいだすがいい...
いたみとともに!

Tormented by the shadow of your former self, writhing in agony.
That twistedness was precicely what your beauty was.
If it’s the case that you have forgotten it, then you should remember...
Together with pain!

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