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date: "2010-01-27"
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The first time I realized my own mortality I was seven years old.
My recent birthday had caused me to start thinking a great deal of how old I had become and my inevitable demise. It was then I had my first episode of heart burn.
I had no idea what was going on; I was convinced I was having a heart attack.
I decided I'd better stop sucking my thumb, because if I died like this, I didn't want everybody to remember my with my knuckle between my teeth.