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I'm not a general or a colonel or a builder of cities. I'm just a corpse who wants not to be.

Isaac Marion

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Isaac Marion
Age: 42
Born: 1981
Born: December 30
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In my mind I am eloquent I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my thoughts. But when I open my mouth, everything collapses.
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Of course, if I eat all of him, if I spare his brain, he'll rise up and follow me back to the airport, and that might make feel better. I'll introduce him to everyone, and maybe we'll stand around and groan for a while. It's hard to say what 'friends' are any more, but that might be close.
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I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.
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But it does make me sad that we've forgotten our names. Out of everything, this seems to me the most tragic. I miss my own and I mourn for everyone else's, because I'd like to love them, but I don't know who they are.
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Just... ate, M says, frowning at me a little. Two days...ago. I grab my stomach again. Feel empty. Feel... dead. He nods. Marr...iage.
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It was fun, but it's over now. This is how things go.
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I want a new past,new memories, a new first handshake with love. I want to start over in every possible way.
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We are where we are, however we got here. What matters is where we go next.
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What's the point of trying to fix a world we're so briefly in?
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It's rare that I read more than two or three books by any one author, usually only one.
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One mistake, one brief lapse of my new found judgement-that's all it took to unravel everything. What a massive responsibility, being a moral creature.
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You know things are moving. You're changing, you fellow Dead are changing, the world is ready for something miraculous. What are we waiting for?
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If there are rules, we're the ones making them. We can change them whenever we want to.
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It frustrates and fascinates me that we'll never know for sure, that despite the best efforts of historians and scientists and poets, there are some things we'll just never know. What the first song sounded like. How it felt to see the first photograph. Who kissed the first kiss, and if it was any good.
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...wanting change is step one, but step two is taking it.
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What happened? How did I get here? How could I have known that my choices mattered?
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