Dead isn’t angels or ghosts. It’s a physical state of breakdown, a change in all those carbon atoms that create the temporary house of a body
so that they can return to their most elemental stage.

“Do you know how, when you are on the verge of a breakdown, the world pounds in …”

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“Until I understood why you didn't cry, even though it hurt: there are kinds of …”