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If, in the absence o fproof, anyth ir1g had happened at all.
got a little existential there
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Back then, your emotion swere a lways e ither ve1yhigh or very low, unl ess you were bored,and nobody in human history had ever been this bored before .We laughed so hard we thought we'd d ie. We drank so muchwe lea med there w•s a thing called alcoho l poiso ning. I :alwaysfeared I had alcohol poisoning.
I can't fully tell what the author is trying to do by switching between second and third person.
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At that age, time moves slow.
Another main theme of this text is time, memories, experiences all together. This is something I think about a lot as well and that's that we have limited time and so making sure you make time to enjoy yourself with the people you love makes everything worth it.
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l have a photo of Ken and Suzy sitting shou lder to shou lderin the back ju st as we're about to embark on a short road trip.
this part just reminds me of the other piece where he talked about photos and how they capture the raw emotions and moment that happened.
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The re was a twe nty-four-hour Kmartdown 880 that we discovered one night on the way back fromgiving someone a lift to the airport-the ultimat e gesture offriendship . A half-hour dr ivejust to buy notepads or underwearin the dead of night , and it was absolutely worth it.
One of the main themes of this text is friendship
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But the grievingheart does not care for logic, and it refuses comparisons
I just really like this line. It is worded well in describing an emotion that is so complicated.
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What did these photographs open?
I think showing the readers the photo really makes everything really real. Especially as Cole said photos makes us confront with reality.
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until I was covered by Mama.
This piece did a really good job balancing a personal story of grief and the connections to bigger broader ideas like how the word "Muslim" in media has been used in a negative sense.
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t made no difference to Mama
I feel like we as readers instantly get this closer more intimate connection to Cole's mother by using the name him and his family would use to address her. Rather than saying "My mom" which would make the readers feel the disconnect between the author and reader they just address her as Mama.
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To remain close to our dead, we cherish images of them. We’ve done so for millenniums. Think of the Fayum portraits
Cole shifts the focus from personal memories to how different cultures remember and celebrate the deceased.
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