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 Dig deeper.
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-Suicide
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 If life started in high school, if that was birth, then running away was conception.
 
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 October 26, 2014:
 
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 Hey Matt
 
 Been a while since I've heard from you. You guys get all settled in the new house? Need to get together and catch up. Still have that gun for your collection.
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 Dad
 
 Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.
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 Never one to beat around the bush.
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 Three and a half hours later, my reply:
 
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 Hey dad,
 
 Things are going fine at the house, though things are always more expensive than they first seem.  We got the old house rented out, though, and that really helps; the mortgage on that is about $650, and it's renting for $1550, so the extra cash really helps with the new place.  Other than finances though,it's going really well.  Loveland's kind of a desert for restaurants and things to do, but we've got enough to keep us occupied at the house.
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 [3] A friend, who is going through similar changes in their life, wrote a really good analogy on binaries and identities: https://medium.com/@indilatrani/early-birds-and-night-owls-afc59712b0b8
 
 [4] A really good paper on the types of things I've been working through over the past decade or so: http://web.uvic.ca/~ahdevor/Witnessing.pdf
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 I'm ashamed to be associated with you.
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 Four days later.
 
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 Hey Madison
 
 First things first. Congratulation on that vacation. They seem to be hard to come by lately. I know Maurine doesn’t consider going to Tucson a vacation any more. We do love San Fran. Maybe a trip this spring. Playing a lot of deadline games this fall and pretty much have been stuck here in the office. Can’t bitch. It pays for retirement (whatever that’ll be).
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 Still looking forward to seeing you Madison. This weekend is a bit of a rush, but we around from then till Thanksgiving. Let me know your address and Maurine and I would love to come up and see the new digs and have some lunch.
 
 Love Dad
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 \begin{ally}
 Dig deeper.
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   It's bound up in stories to come,\\
   \vin \& these stories nest infinitely deep.
 
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   Remembering that \& shaping that,\\
   \vin It's a part of making the meaning in my life.\\
   This isn't better against worse,\\
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 Do you ever worry that maybe he should be forgiven?
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 Oh, \emph{constantly}.
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