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“i watched my dad die. i watched a man die. i held the hand of a dead body. i was alive next to a corpse. i laughed because i knew i would never be able to explain it. my dad doesn't have a grave except the one inside my lungs. i visit the cemetery anyway. i sit next to the oldest gravestone and open up a book to read. i say out loud, hello, and am always surprised when no one answers.”

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“Only the loss remains which can never be recuperated. The event is over. The event has been overcome and yet the loss is only beginning. Every day it grows deeper. More and more is forgotten. Less and less is really known for certain. And nothing will ever bring his father back from the realm of memory into the reassuringly concrete world of material fact. Tangible and specific fact. And how - how is it possible to accept this or even to understand what it means?”