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Watching someone you love_ die? There are no words for how broken that makes a person. It__ like waking up from a bad dream only to find out that it__ you reality, it__ like watching sunlight fade from the sky, like watching death suck the one you love dry, and being powerless to stop it. You may as well try to stop the waves from rolling in, or the sun from rising.In the end, the waves will roll, the sun will set, and death will come. The only thing you have a choice in? How you deal with it_when it does.
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Watching someone you love_ die? There are no words for how broken that makes a person. It__ like waking up from a bad dream only to find out that it__ you reality, it__ like watching sunlight fade from the sky, like watching death suck the one you love dry, and being powerless to stop it. You may as well try to stop the waves from rolling in, or the sun from rising.In the end, the waves will roll, the sun will set, and death will come. The only thing you have a choice in? How you deal with it_when it does.

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