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The Party Without Me

David Rönnegard laments having to leave the party early.

You don’t know me. To most of you, my disappearance will make no difference. That is something we have in common. My disappearance will make no difference to me either: once my consciousness is extinguished I will be as unaware of my existence as you are.

Although this is in some sense a chronicle of a death foretold, it is not an attempt to pull at heartstrings.

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