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People die. This is the fact the world desperately hides from us from birth. Long after you find out the truth about sex and Santa Claus, this other myth endures, this one about how you__l always get rescued at the last second and if not, your death will at least mean something and there__l be somebody there to hold your hand and cry over you. All of society is built to prop up that lie, the whole world a big, noisy puppet show meant to distract us from the fact that at the end, you__l die, and you__l probably be alone.
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People die. This is the fact the world desperately hides from us from birth. Long after you find out the truth about sex and Santa Claus, this other myth endures, this one about how you__l always get rescued at the last second and if not, your death will at least mean something and there__l be somebody there to hold your hand and cry over you. All of society is built to prop up that lie, the whole world a big, noisy puppet show meant to distract us from the fact that at the end, you__l die, and you__l probably be alone.
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John Dies at the End

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