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What happened? How did I get here? How could I have known that my choices mattered?

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Isaac Marion
Age: 42
Born: 1981
Born: December 30
Music Journalist
Novelist
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Seattle
Washington
Mattered
Choices
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It's more eerie to be alone in a city that's lit up and functioning than one that's a tomb. If everything were silent, one could almost pretend to be in nature. A forest. A meadow. Crickets and birdsong. But the corpse of civilization is as restless as the creatures that now roam the graveyards.
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In my palm I can feel the echo of her pulse, standing in for the absense of mine.
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Once you've arrived at the end of the world, it hardly matters which route you took.
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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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We have to remember everything. If we don't, by the time we grow up it'll be gone forever.
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My favorite songs change every year.
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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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What I'm saying is, when you have weight like that in your life, you have to start looking for the bigger picture or you are gonna sink.
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That's why we have memory. And the opposite of memory— hope. So things that are gone can still matter. So we can built off our pasts and make future.
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How do I appear unthreatening when her lover's blood is running down my chin?
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I'm watching her talk. Watching her jaw move and collecting her words one by one as they spill from her lips. I don't deserve them. Her warm memories. I'd like to paint them over the bare plaster walls of my soul, but everything I paint seems to peel.
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Are we all just Dark Age doctors, swearing by our leeches? We crave a greater science. We want to be proven wrong.
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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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I notice faint scars on her wrists and forearms, thin lines too symmetrical to be accidents.
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When the entire world is built on death and horror, when existence is a constant state of panic, it's hard to get worked up about any one thing. Specific fears have become irrelevant. We've replace them with a smothering blanket far worse.
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What's wrong with people? she says, almost too quiet for me to hear. Were they born with parts missing or did it fall out somewhere along the way?
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Everything you see, you might be seeing for the last time.
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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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Life only makes any sense if we can see time how God does. Past, present, and future all at once.
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You might say that death has relaxed me.
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