5 Wane
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They say your entire life flashes before your eyes right before you die, but that’s not what happened—not to me, anyway. Instead, I found myself thinking about all the people closest to me that weren’t actually there (not including my parents, oddly enough): people like Hal Keller, who would have been sitting down to a cold lunch of hot mustard sardines and boiled water—if he bothered to eat at all—at Camp Courage about then; or Macey McNeil—who was probably so worried about us she couldn’t eat, much less teach, or Colby Higgins, listening to the Stones’ “Hang Fire” on his shitty cassette deck (for the millionth time) while sipping that godawful herbal tea of his and tending his m*******a plants. And it seemed to me these images all had one thing in common—which was that
