Love and Loss
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Grief is not just an emotion—it’s an unraveling, a space where something
once lived but is now gone. It carves through you, leaving a hollow ache
where l...
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3 comments:
Very amusing. I like the line "I didn't get this far by selling just half my soul."
In the interest of fairness, however, I need to point out that ants vastly outnumber elephants, and that humans lose far more food to being eaten by insects, small though they are, than by elephants.
Wait. Is that the artist's rendering of Boehner (Agent Orange) in the first frame?
Excellent!
Thanks Erin. I should have drawn him in orange. Oh well.
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