These feelings weren’t new to the world, but that didn’t stop it from feeling like they were. These same friends would later text me a line from some book or a quote from a movie that was supposed to comfort me, atheist friends messaging me about unexplained phenomena in physics and quantum mechanics that were supposed to prove how no one knew what anything meant. Bob Dylan lyrics. Books on reincarnation. You have to listen to this song, Thiago. It’ll help. And sure, I could hang platitudes and facts on myself like ornaments, but it still didn’t help. So what if the universe was a hologram? So
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