Watching the documentary The Remarkable Life of Ibelin [about a gamer who died at 25 of a degenerative muscular disease]. I bawled.
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I genuinely can’t remember crying.
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Thirty seconds ago. I cry a lot. I find great solace in it.
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I cry all the time.
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Listening to the last 10 minutes of the podcast S-Town. It is one of my favourite reminders of what life is truly all about.
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