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Bad News, Heirs

Judge John Hodgman

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The Eureka Moment

The Eureka moment was when the older child was around four years old, he used to hate it when he was like having a snack and his cereal bar broke before he started eating it. He would start wailing and just be really irrationally because he was four, whatever. So that happened once, and I was kind of consoling him and explaining to him that it's going to break in your mouth anyway. And then it was around that time that I realized, oh is a good time to talk about death. Every candy bar breaks and every mom and dad dies.

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