“It's sometimes better to pretend I don't hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with a shotgun.”
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Strictly speaking, there are no real substitutes for sexual satisfaction.
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People always say things like, Oh, well, he was suffering so much that he was better off dying. But that's not true. You're always better off living.
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I don't know much about him; never heard him say more than nope or yup.
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