I asked him to keep his heart beating for me, but the thing is… eventually those heartbeats will run out. I don’t know what the average amount of heartbeats a person has, but I imagine it’s somewhere in the billions, right? And while that’s, like, a lot—like more than the human mind can even grasp—there’s no fucking guarantee we’ll actually have that many. There’s no fucking guarantee we’ll have even half or a quarter of those. So while I hope—pray—that he has an infinite amount of beats left… I have to face the reality that he doesn’t. He might only have millions, or thousands, or hundreds
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