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It's not like I'm such a shiny happy person either, you know? I'm a wreck too, I'm just... still alive.

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Isaac Marion
Age: 42
Born: 1981
Born: December 30
Music Journalist
Novelist
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Seattle
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I wince at her use of the word human. I've never liked that differentiation. She is living and I'm dead, but we're both human. Call me an idealist.
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It’s sad to see them staring wistfully through the window when the door isn’t locked.
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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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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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We are where we are, however we got here. What matters is where we go next.
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What happened? How did I get here? How could I have known that my choices mattered?
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Writing isn't letters on paper. It's communication. It's memory.
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I notice faint scars on her wrists and forearms, thin lines too symmetrical to be accidents.
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Came to . . . see you.” “But I had to go home, remember? You were supposed to say good-bye.” “Don't know why you . . . say good-bye. I say . . . hello.” Her lip quivers between reactions, but she ends up with a reluctant smile. “God you're a cheeseball. But seriously, R—
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There’s not really such thing as ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people, there’s just like…humanity. And it gets broken sometimes.
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Sometimes it's a struggle to live in the moment.
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I think we crushed ourselves down over the centuries. Buried ourselves under greed and hate and whatever other sins we could find until our souls finally hit the rock bottom of the universe. And then they scraped a hole through it, into some ... darker place.
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Music? Music is life! It’s physical emotion - you can touch it! It’s neon ecto-energy sucked out of spirits and switched into sound waves for your ears to swallow. Are you telling me, what, that it’s boring? You don’t have time for it?
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Life only makes any sense if we can see time how God does. Past, present, and future all at once.
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...wanting change is step one, but step two is taking it.
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I can no longer believe in any voodoo spell or laboratory virus. This is something deeper, darker. This comes from the cosmos, from the stars, or the unknown blackness behind them. The shadows in God's boarded-up basement.
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