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"California."

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"We often ate late
by flameless candles

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and took turns choosing
how best to be disposed of.

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I want to be buried.

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I want everyone to be buried.

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I realized there's scarcely a
spare acre left in the ground,

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but I just can't do without the
indecorous transit from parlor

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to plot.

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I need that array of
daytime headlights

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jolting the arid access road,
the only remembrance that

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matters.

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Don't make a speech.

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For years I would wonder whether
the man who attacked me--

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in his memory, did
the event of it

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persist as a dull sort of flash?

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And then he died and
became himself just a flash

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in the mind of the world.

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And now I wonder,
is he anywhere?

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I don't believe in hell.

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And also I don't
believe in nothing.

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So that leaves only heaven.

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I have a couple questions.

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It is my understanding
that the weather in heaven

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has only a single setting,
which is pleasant.

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I haven't spent real
time in California,

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but friends of mine
who've moved there

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say it's challenging, absent
the changing of the seasons,

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to remember when
things took place.

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With reference to always
the lodgepole pine

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and the low-bent needlegrass,
you get confused.

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Dates and sequences,
even the people involved.

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You can almost imagine the
whole thing with somebody else."

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