...when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much al…

Kurt Vonnegut
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...when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist. ✨ Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five, p.8, Infobase Publishing
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...when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist. ✨ Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five, p.8, Infobase Publishing

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