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The key to a happy life is to have accomplishments to be proud of and purpose to look forward to, and at the moment I had both. How wonderful it was to be me.
Jeff Lindsay
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Jeff Lindsay
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 14
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Jeffry P. Freundlich
Jeffry P. Lindsay
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Mutilated corpses with a chance of afternoon showers. I got dressed and went to work.
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And here I always thought morality was useless.
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I nodded with genuine synthetic sympathy.
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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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Life's only obligation, afterall, was to be interesting.
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...she opened the door very slowly and carefully, half hiding behind it, as if badly frightened of what might be waiting for her on the other side. And considering that it was me waiting, this showed rare common sense.
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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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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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I really am guilty, of many somethings, all of them lethal and very enjoyable and technically not quite legal.
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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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Now I know what it is like to feel like a total idiot.
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The mind picks some very bad times to take a walk doesn't it?
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This was just no fun. I wanted my brain back.
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What to wear? I could think of no guidelines on what we were wearing this season to a party forced on you to celebrate an unwanted engagement that might turn into a violent confrontation with a vengeful maniac. Clearly brown shoes were out, but beyond that nothing really seemed de rigueur.
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When faced with people who have very limited conversational skills and no apparent desire to cultivate any it's always easier to simply go along.
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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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...being torn apart by far too many loyalties that could not possibly live together in the same brain.
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In its own way the kiss had been an act of murder.
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