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Riddle:

My whole life had conditioned me
To hide my deep duplicity,
And I’m a man of many faults.
So I procured rare chemical salts
And mixed them with a red solution.
Now, to reverse my devolution
I must restock my workshop shelves
Or lose both my conflicted selves.

Who am I? (Or, who are we?)

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