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6:59 AM - "RISE AND SHINE, SWEETHEART."
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(a last real conversation with dad)

5:59 AM was the hour at hand. A ghastly and ungodly hour to wake a child, but that's the nature parents, isn't it? "Cruel and unreasonable big people, who use their superior size and resources to control their young." - (That's also a definition from Webster's English Dictionary.)

"Rise and shine, sweetheart," were the words my father said to me. Those are the words I remember best from that day. Those weren't his last words, but they may as well have been.... And I suppose they were certainly more sentimental than his actual last words which were something like: "Arg. Oh God that hurts. Where the fuck are my legs and lower torso? Oh fuck." See? Not nearly as swell.

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