girl from the good old days
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Year of incalculable loss.
10% of something doesn't seem like a big deal until it's applied to an unfathomably large number. Or something irreplacable.
It didn't happen all at once, the way it does in movies and novels. It was gradual, like falling asleep - but by the end of it, it was unmistakable. The lack was most noticeable in small gatherings. Between 10 - 100 people.
There was no one left who hadn't lost someone. This includes the one who drank bleach, injected bootlegged recombinant protein to pass the antibody tests, volunteered for the first batches of the vaccine.
How did it feel, you ask? To live in a world without the person you loved? Like drowning, at first. Like living underwater. But then of course, you adjust.
5045032 - 60708889
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transcribing ..... .. ........
transcribing complete
Year of incalculable loss.
10% of something doesn't seem like a big deal until it's applied to an unfathomably large number. Or something irreplacable.
It didn't happen all at once, the way it does in movies and novels. It was gradual, like falling asleep - but by the end of it, it was unmistakable. The lack was most noticeable in small gatherings. Between 10 - 100 people.
There was no one left who hadn't lost someone. This includes the one who drank bleach, injected bootlegged recombinant protein to pass the antibody tests, volunteered for the first batches of the vaccine.
How did it feel, you ask? To live in a world without the person you loved? Like drowning, at first. Like living underwater. But then of course, you adjust.
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