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Corpses
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Please try to remember.
100% of people finding themselves in hell, would accept, if offered the chance to go back in time, to warn themselves or others, about the grotesque existance which is hell. Begging. Pleading.
And, I'm not so sure about time travel.
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He [Tom Klay]'d watched people tend to corpses thousands of times. They straightened eyeglasses, fixed neckties, picked away bits of makeup, adjusted stray hair. They leaned into caskets and kissed the dead on the forehead, the cheeks, the lips. They spoke to them.
Klay had seen so many dead he couldn't remember his first, but he didn't understand it. A corpse was not a person. It was a thing--an abandoned thing, no more worthy of sentiment than was a dead person's shoes or toothbrush.
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― In the Company of Killers
― In the Company of Killers
