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A friend halfway across the world played me Happy Birthday on his guitar and told me that when he becomes an engineer he will help me pay off my college debt.

Today I thought that someone shot a bullet at my window. I'm not sure what happened but it scared me and I promptly started considering what I would look like shot in the head at the position I was at. I would have died on my hand painted chair head first into the computer with my browser opened to an astrology news tab and Rainer Maria Rilke poetry. To the right of me would have been a literature anthology opened up to Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Nature" and to the left of me would have been a ukulele. I am positive this would have been the perfect way to die.

Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. - Rainer Maria Rilke