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Old Man's War by
John Scalzi
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For as much as I hate the cemetery, I’ve been grateful it’s here, too. I miss my wife. It’s easier to miss her at a cemetery, where she’s never been anything but dead, than to miss her in all the places where she was alive.
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Now, you may think that this is some sort of generalized hatred that I will carry for the lot of you. Let me assure you that this is not the case. Each of you will fail, but you will fail in your own unique way, and therefore I will dislike each of you on an individual basis.
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Damn real live people, getting in the way of peaceful ideals.
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The colony was covered with goo, a coating of slime mold several centimeters thick in some places. It dripped off power lines and was all over the communication equipment.
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the slime mold rose up from the body and slapped him wetly on the face.
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The problem with aging is not that it’s one damn thing after another—it’s every damn thing, all at once, all the time.
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I’m a seething cauldron of disconnected rage on the inside
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Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us. I miss meaning something to someone, having that part of being human.
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Well, I miss my wife, you know," I said. "But I also miss the feeling of, I don’t know, comfort. The sense you’re where you’re supposed to be, with someone you’re supposed to be with.
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