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Then the-- I have a
friend who died at 21.

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My husband was a
spectacular man.

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I was quite fond of him.

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He was a man who always
wanted to know the truth,

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to know the clear thing.

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Anyway, this is "the
death of fred clifton."

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I saw my husband die.

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My children and I stood around
and held his hand as he died.

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And when he died, when he--
this is true-- when he died,

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he was in a room that
had been his study,

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and there was a wall of glass.

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And as he was dying,
all these birds

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came up and hovered at the
window and just hovered there.

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And then, when he
expired, they flew away.

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And he was-- he was a man--
clarity meant a lot to him.

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Anyway, "the death of fred
clifton, 11/10/84, aged 49."

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I seemed to be drawn to
the center of myself,

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leaving the edges of me
in the hands of my wife.

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And I saw with the
most amazing clarity,

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so that I had not
eyes but sight.

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And rising and turning
through my skin,

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there was all around,
not the shapes of things,

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but oh, at last, the
things themselves.

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