Watching the documentary The Remarkable Life of Ibelin [about a gamer who died at 25 of a degenerative muscular disease]. I bawled.
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Last night, watching Grey’s Anatomy.
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Thinking about all the things I have failed to do during the day.
First I wanted to be in the circus, then a tap dancer, then prime minister. I have failed at all three.
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