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I don't know if you have noticed this, but it is quite possible for two human beings to have a conversation in which one or both parties involved has absolutely no idea what they're talking about.

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Jeff Lindsay
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 14
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No big deal. We all have blood in us, the trick is keeping it inside.
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Me, feeling. What a concept.
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Mutilated corpses with a chance of afternoon showers. I got dressed and went to work.
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I had killed our careful relationship by driving my tongue through its heart and pushing it off a cliff.
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But of course, there's no rest for the wicked, which I certainly am as I said, no rest for the wicked.
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I sighed as comforting as it may be to some of us, sarcasm, like youth, is wasted on the young.
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Dying makes everyone weaker, subject to painful insight, and not always insight into any kind of special truth - it's just the approaching end that makes people want to believe they are seeing something in the line of a great revelation.
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They like to tell us that it is important to speak the truth, but it has been my experience that real happiness lies in having people tell you what you want to believe, usually not the same thing at all, and if you have to stub your toe on the truth later, so be it.
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And as we should all know by now, anytime you predict failure you have an excellent chance of being right.
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After a long moment I closed the freezer door. I wanted to lie down and press my cheek against the cool linoleum. Instead I reached out with my little finger and flipped the Barbie's head. It went thack thack against the door. I flipped it again. Thack thack. Whee. I had a new hobby.
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But what could I do? Be stupid for a while? I wasn't sure I knew how, even after so many years of careful observation.
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Life's only obligation, afterall, was to be interesting.
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