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More for Less

July 2, 2015 3 Comments

More For Less

By Christopher Perry

“Honey, finish your cigarette and beer, please.”

“You’ve been running around outside all day. Why don’t you come inside and play some video games?”

Got to love my mom; she’s always looking out. These days, if you aren’t careful you can live to be 500. It seems great, sure. But not when our minds still go at anywhere from 80 to 100. I don’t want to be a vegetable for 400 years like my great-great-great-great-grandfather.

Suicide is illegal. They imprison your whole family if you do it. Same thing for murder.

So we smoke, drink, eat sugar, and have unprotected sex.

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  1. TISA GARRISON says

    July 2, 2015 at 7:34 pm

    Love it.

    Reply
  2. Barry O'Farrell says

    July 3, 2015 at 9:15 pm

    A good take from a different perspective. Well done.

    Reply
  3. cperry440 says

    August 31, 2015 at 10:21 am

    Thank you, Tisa and Barry!

    Reply

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