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I keep thinking back to how I died.
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Is there some sort of weird rule of death that you can't remember how you die?

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I'm dead. Really dead. Not in the "there'll be a twist at the end and I'll be saved" kind of way. Just dead.
Prompt suggested by DoctorMikeReddy
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June 23, 2011

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