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Bad News, Heirs

Judge John Hodgman

CHAPTER

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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