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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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Isaac Marion
Age: 42
Born: 1981
Born: December 30
Music Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Seattle
Washington
Time
Life
Present
Future
Sense
Makes
Past
Doe

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It was fun, but it's over now. This is how things go.
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Stop. Breathe those useless breaths. Drop this piece of life you’re holding to your lips. Where are you? How long have you been here? Stop now. You have to stop. Squeeze shut your stinging eyes, and take another bite.
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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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Here it comes. My inevitable death, ignoring me all those years when I wished for it daily, arriving only after I've decided I want to live forever.
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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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