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Laugh, I Nearly Died, Andrew answers. You've probably never heard that one before.

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J.A. Redmerski
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: November 25
Novelist
Little Rock
Arkansas
Died
Laughing
Answers
Probably
Heard
Never
Andrew
Nearly
Laugh

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Because this is our life. We met on the road we grew to know and to love each other on the road. It's where we were meant to be for however long, and it's what we're going to do until it becomes clear that we're meant to do something else.
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Coincidence is just the conformist term for fate.
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Just remember to always be yourself and don’t be afraid to speak your mind or to dream out loud
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Promise me that if I ever get Alzheimer’s or dementia, and I don’t remember anyone that you’ll visit me every day and read to me like Noah read to Allie.
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The moment you tell someone else is the moment you become a whiner and the world’s smallest violin starts to play. The truth is, we all have problems we all go through hardships and pain, and my pain is paradise compared to a lot of people’s and I really have no right to whine at all.
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I promise to love you forever in this life and wherever we go in the afterlife, because I know I can't go on in any life unless you're in it too.
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Yesterday I thought about why I felt the need to get up at exactly the same time as the day before and do everything I did the day before. Why? What compels any of us to do the things we do when deep down a part of us just wants to break free from it all?
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Just because one person's problem is less traumatic than another's doesn't mean they're required to hurt less
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Everybody starts out as strangers.
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There is a stark difference between fear and uncertainty, Sarai. You fear nothing but are uncertain of everything.
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His face spreads into a warm smile. “As a matter of fact, no, I have never slept under the stars – are you gettin’ all romantic on me, Camryn Bennett?” He looks at me with a playful sideward stare.
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I don’t want to sleep alone,” she says gently. And I don’t force her to. Sarai falls fast asleep curled up next to me in my bed. Right where I want her.
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Well, I’m glad you didn’t drown.” His eyes warm up with his face. I smile back at him. “Yeah, that would’ve sucked.” “Definitely.
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Best friends, no matter what they do or how much they hurt you, it only hurts as much as it does because they are your best friend. And none of us are perfect. Mistakes were made for best friends to forgive it’s what makes being a best friend official.
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I run behind her, letting her stay a few steps ahead of me so if she happens to fall I’ll be there to laugh at her first and then help her up afterwards.
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It’s not only about sadness. In truth, sadness really has little to do with it. Depression is pain in its purest form and I would do anything to be able to feel an emotion again. Any emotion at all. Pain hurts, but pain that’s so powerful that you can’t feel anything anymore, that’s when you start to feel like you’re going crazy.
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You’re the world to me,” I whisper onto her lips. “I hope you never forget that.” “I’ll never forget,” she whispers back.. “But if I ever do, for whatever reason, I hope you’ll always find a way to remind me.” ...“Always.
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I say that I'm not into you like that, Camryn, because.., he pauses, searching my face, looking at my lips for a moment as if deciding whether or not he should kiss them again, ...because you're not the girl I could only sleep with once.
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Why does everybody have to be with somebody? It’s a stupid delusion and a really pathetic way of thinking.
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Oh, this is going to be fun he actually thinks he's teaching me something.
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