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This fucking broke me.
Also, I am not someone who particularly frets about growing old (perhaps because everyone tells me I look at least ten years younger than I am and I don't really have the crappy obligations of most people my age), but this put a fear and a sorrow into me I didn't know was lurking about. Woah.
It's been a long time since I read a fic that's forced me to go out and take a walk around the block.
This fucking broke me.
Also, I am not someone who particularly frets about growing old (perhaps because everyone tells me I look at least ten years younger than I am and I don't really have the crappy obligations of most people my age), but this put a fear and a sorrow into me I didn't know was lurking about. Woah.
It's been a long time since I read a fic that's forced me to go out and take a walk around the block.
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Date: 2008-04-26 07:18 am (UTC)And for me, it seems more like a year of watching other people fight things like cancer, and it's much easier in some ways to face my own dying than having to watch someone I love failing.
And it's Kai's 40th on Tuesday, and I'm taking him out to do something crazy and there is a nonzero chance of dying.
God we're a cheerful lot tonight.