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“You’re only as strong as your weakest link”
Conditioner made radioactive material stick to your hair.
Fun fact re radiation
Ninety percent of radioactive material could be eliminated just by removing your outer layer of clothing and washing your skin.
Fun fact re radiation
She’d had no idea how impossible it would be for common sense to outweigh profits. They’d been hopelessly naive.
This is what community is. It’s not a place, it’s not a people—it’s the acts of love done in a place by those people.
“Hindsight’s twenty-twenty,”
If he truly had understood what that meant—that time runs out—he would have done it all so differently.
If life’s a joke and death’s the punch line, in any good setup, you never see it coming. Because if we did understand, we would spend it all in the sun with the grass between our toes. What else was the point? We’re here, then we’re not. And before that and after that, the mountains stay put and the waves keep crashing and the storms come and go and none of any of that is aware that for a brief, fleeting moment, we were here too. We were a part of it too.
None of it, none of us, matter. And once you see it, once you get it, once you’re free from the false belief that you think you have time, you can just enjoy it for what it is. And it is all so, so beautiful.
