Brief, Horrible Moments (May 21st, 2016)

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I knew the treatments would make me feel better eventually, but as I looked at the puddle of blood I had just coughed up, I still wished I didn't see so many larvae.

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"We're going to be a family," I whispered as I observed the smiling faces of my future wife and son from outside the house.

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I felt my husband's warm arms wrap around me from behind, which would have been comforting if I hadn't been laying across from his cold body.

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I stroked her hair and ran my thumb gently across the down of her temples before I kissed her for the first time, deeply, eager for the rest of her body waiting on the other side of the room.

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"Chug, chug, chug," they chanted as they poured more down my throat, the liquid pooling quickly on the floor as it spilled from the hole it had already burned.

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