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View from the North 40: Re: life, the universe and my cat

Sometimes the Universe stops orchestrating ironic life twists — and creating cracks in the sidewalk of life just to laugh at seeing you trip and fall — long enough to do you a favor. A real favor.

Sometimes that real favor feels like a sucker punch to the solar plexus. You’re just lying there in the dirt with your mouth gaping uselessly like a fish on a dry bank waiting for the clubbing that’s sure to follow to put you out of your misery. The knock-out blow doesn’t come, but the air does, eventually, and that means you gotta keep living.

And then one day you’re stuffing your h...

 

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