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Old Age Dreams
Page 8: Peace
Peace
Created by: David Johnson
Emily dreams of her final Thanksgiving dinner with her
family, all of whom know that she doesn't have long to live. They wheel her around
the graveyard to see the family plot one last time, where she will shortly be
buried alongside her husband and parents, but she finds herself fascinated by
the graveyard angels again. This time, she doesn't fear them (as in "Mother_funeral");
instead, she pities them for their disrepair, and finds herself unable to achieve
peace until she's willing to give up that pity, along with all other temporal
concerns. She sees her funeral and a final moment in a type of Heaven, where a
child assures her that "once the forgetting starts, you don't miss anything
at all."
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