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6 as in the number of times I hung up before I let the phone ring all the way

I wanted to tell my parents. I wanted them to know that they would be outliving their son. I wanted to congratulate them for staying so healthy and not getting strange diseases that did not unexpectedly cut their lives short.

I wanted them to know that I was sorry for being a bad child. For smoking and drinking. Stealing, bullying other kids. Gosh, I had been a bother before I was faced with death.

I wanted to apologise for inconveniencing them seeing that they would be paying for my funeral since I still did not have life cover. Another thing that my girlfriend needed to scold me about, not getting life cover.

But does anyone ever think that they will be dying before they are thirty?

I mean, there are people who died much younger. So maybe I complain a lot. Maybe I am just ungrateful. I lived a longer life than some people could say.

A quarter of a century. Wow. I have lived for such a long time...