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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
Writer
Seattle
Washington
Mattered
Choices
Happened
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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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We eat and sleep and shuffle through the fog, walking a marathon with no finish line, no medals, no cheering.
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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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I feel an unfamiliar but pleasant sensation in my lips, tugging them upward. This is... new.
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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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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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Can we really choose anything?' 'Maybe. If we want to bad enough.
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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 sigh inside, so exhausted by these ugly questions, but when did a monster ever deserve its privacy?
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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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You should always be taking pictures, if not with a camera then with your mind. Memories you capture on purpose are always more vivid than the ones you pick up by accident.
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I can feel it... the chance to start over, to live right, to love right, to burn up in a fiery cloud and never again be buried in the mud.
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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.
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It's hard to take your life so seriously when you can see it all at once.
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...thinking all this maximalism would somehow generate happiness?
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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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Once again the absurdity of my inner thoughts overwhelms me, and I want to crawl out of my skin, escape my ugly, awkward flesh and be a skeleton, naked and anonymous.
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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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Writing isn't letters on paper. It's communication. It's memory.
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