We often find ourselves standing over a person at the very moment they die. Sometimes we are expecting it, other times it snaps our heads around. Sometimes we fight it with a formidable scrum of latex and blue. Sometimes we let it slip through with dimmed lights and whispered release.
And we try our hardest […]
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