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Echoes of The Heart

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My father died at the age of 53 of a massive heart attack.  This was my first fixed point in time. I came home and my mother was crying in the living room of our modest apartment. At 13 I had no idea what was about to come. Adults don't die in the early 50s or 40s that sort of realistic view of the world doesn't hit a 13 year old right away. This changed our lives forever my family wasn't in the best terms at that point in time. Two of my brothers decided to live with my father as I stayed back. Over the years this brought a division within our family. It was like my brothers went to the fight with General Lee and join the Confederate Army and I said fuck them "the Union forever death to the traitors". The decision was more visceral than family feelings, this was about ideologies of who was the better parent. Needless to say it took about 20 years for my brothers and I to make peace. At the end none of us were right and we wasted so much time on what was and ...
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Last male on Earth

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Today the last male rhino of the Northern White Rhino subspecies passed away after fighting a secondary infection. It would be a bit disingenuous of me to say that it doesn't really matter. To say something along the lines of "Animals are being pushed to extinction every day so why is this guy so special?" But that cynical view is more fitting of a defeatist and not me.  Here is the deal. Kenya as he was named probably had no idea what the hell was going on. Constantly under watch by men and women heavily armed to protect him against poachers. They gave him a constant pat on the head and he in return always was ready to lend an ear or two during those lonely nights & days.  I can only imagine the type of bonding between man and beast and this is why this is so newsworthy.  Yes it puts into focus the total disregard of humanity that allows Kenya to be the most eligible bachelor on Earth, but it also fully displays the incredibly kindness that we are capable of....
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Better late than 500

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Science fiction tries to sell us the concept of a fixed point in time. Something that you cannot change. Killing Hitler, saving JFK and quite possibly the 2016 election. Sometimes things are just meant to happen. God's honest truth I can take anything and make it into my own personal fixed point and I bet you could too so lets get the ball rolling. Okay, that was a bit confrontational and a bit awkward sorry about that.  So I'm 38 years old technically unemployed and by technically I mean I'm part of the gig economy. I do my own thing, have my own enterprises some more lucrative than others all are as ridiculous and clicheic as you can imagine. Recently, I had a medical incident that made me rethink things. Especially, what I leave behind the day I take my last breath. A few of my friends have died, some have taken their own lives, and for the most part have left very little behind that I could read in their own voice.  So, this will be that.  A thing that my s...
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