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- From: JBrandt@AAA.Uoregon.EDU (Jason)
- Newsgroups: alt.callahans
- Subject: Re: Toast for friends
- Followup-To: alt.callahans
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 04:50:36 GMT
- Organization: The Polyhedron Group
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- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <JBrandt-260193205300@fp1-dialin-1.uoregon.edu>
- References: <93025.145858KZAHLLER@MIAMIU.BITNET>
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- In article <93025.145858KZAHLLER@MIAMIU.BITNET>, <KZAHLLER@MIAMIU.BITNET>
- wrote:
- > "I just received some very bad news from a friend of mine."
-
- > "There are other tragedies and heart-breaks I'm dealing with now,
- > but they weren't such a shock to me. Anyway, this toast is for
- > all of them. Friends, to the survivors! To those who must stay
- > behind when friends and family ride westward, to those who are
- > left behind when others leave them, to those who are taken from
- > those they love against their will."
- >
- > And Magda-Wolf tosses back most of the brandy and hurls the empty
- > glass into the fireplace where the left-over alcohol causes a
- > brilliant flash.
-
- Jason raises his glass as well. "Amen to that. There's a philosophy I've
- shared here before, for what comfort it can give. Life is a road we all
- travel, and death but a gateway through which we all must in time pass.
- Friends and loved ones may hurry on ahead of us, hidden from our sight by
- the bends in life's road. Yet we shall meet them again, when it is our turn
- to cross that threshold. To those that have gone before us, and those yet
- to make the journey."
-
- <<CRASH>>
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