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Frank Ostaseski: What the Dying Teach the Living

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The Importance of Prayers

Don't just stand there with your hair turning gray. Soon enough the seas will sink your little island. No sense packing a bag. You won't be able to lift it into your boat. Give away all of your collections. Take only new seeds and an old stick. And send out some prayers on the wind before you sail. Someone knows you're coming. An extra fish has been salted. Thank you Sono. We'll send your ass to death as sheep.

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