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Tuesday, August 19, 2008 12:00 AM

I escaped death -- and now I want to live!

Should I try to return to life as it was before, or should I set out on adventures?
By Cary Tennis

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  • Monday, August 18, 2008 06:28 PM

    Why a carriage?

    (why this horse-drawn carriage and not a modern automobile?)

    Because, in the back of your mind, Cary, you're thinking about Emily Dickenson's poem Because I could not stop for Death

    Because I could not stop for Death,

    He kindly stopped for me;

    The carriage held but just ourselves

    And Immortality..

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