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trust me
you're not a bad person.
i am.

[salbutamol]

I don't think you're a bad person.
You've been nothing but nice to me. That's not what bad people do.

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when i died, i was pretty much going to hell.

[salbutamol]

Depending on the doctrine hell is pretty easy to get into, it seems.

( wait 👁👄👁 )

Died?

1/2

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surprise, i'm actually dead.
it's a whole thing.

2/2

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why do you think you're a bad person?

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That's not really something you just 'surprise' and swing past. Are you still dead? Did this place bring you back? I have a lot of questions.

Um. Long story.

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yeah, i'm still dead.
i'm a revenant or whatever.
this place is keeping me from going to hell.

i got all day.

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You can't just 'or whatever' this stuff, your experience is not universal. What's a revenant?
I don't think you should go to hell :(

I think I got married for the wrong reasons. I wasn't a very good husband. And now I guess I'm an adulterer 'or whatever'.

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me, i'm a revenant. someone who's undead?
before this i was kind of rotting away. :(
this place is somehow making me not.

what makes a bad husband?
i cheated on my husband before i got here.
it's different here, not like anyone has much choice.

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In my world we just call them zombies and also they don't exist.
Jesus, that must be awful ( eddie's literal worst nightmare actually ) but it's just fixed, because you're here? Does that mean you're still a...revenant?

I don't love her. I don't think I ever did.
I'm not very nice. She does a lot for me and I don't appreciate it.
Maybe we're bad for each other.

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i think i'm a little better than a zombie
plus, revenant sounds cooler.
long story short, a lucky coin is what kept me alive back where i'm from
but the person who owns the coin has it now.

sounds like it's good that she's not here.
if you feel like you two are then you probably are bad for each other.

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Are you glad it happened? I know no one really wants to die, but it must be weird. I don't know. Did coming back change anything?

It's very good. She wouldn't like it here.

Also I
got involved with a friend from back home? Just once. But it happened.

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well, i'm fucking glad i'm not in hell
and now i have a chance to make things okay.

look at us bad people.

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You make it sound like it's an actual place.

It happened here but I think.
I'm pretty sure I wanted it to happen back there too. I think I would've, if the chance came up.
That's pretty bad. I don't know it's complicated.

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it is
i went there.
i was going to spend an eternity in darkness.

sounds like you're human, eddie
i'm probably not the right person, but
it's not as bad as it sounds.
i still don't think you're a bad person.

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That's fucked up. There shouldn't be anything deciding who gets punished for the rest of the afterlife. Morality is totally subjective anyway.
I don't think you deserve that.

It's not great either though.
I took my wedding vows seriously when I made them, but then this person. I don't know. This all feels very messy.

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my thoughts exactly
we're all human
the good and the bad.


people change
priorities change
do you think you want a divorce? that's an option.

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Does that mean there's a heaven where you're from too? Maybe everywhere has one.
I don't want the religious nuts to be right :(


I've wanted a divorce since I got married, that's just normal.
Doesn't everyone hate being married?

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if there is, i haven't seen it
but there are plenty of gods in my world.

jesus, eddie
no, not everyone hates being married.
no one ever told you just to get a divorce?

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Sounds exhausting. Do they help?With like the world and shit.

I don't hate her I just hate the whole. Marriage. I just don't like the part where you have to explain where you are and what you're doing all the time or the other person freaks out.

I haven't told anyone any of this before.
I don't really talk about things to people normally.

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no all they cause is shit
and not the good kind of shit.

you don't hate her, but you don't love her.
marriage isn't supposed to suck, eddie.

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Does everyone know about them? Are they just walking about, fucking everything up? We have a. Not a God but a something problem. I'm not sure what it is.

I think it might be relevant but the friend from home is a man. So.

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they're just walking around. fucking everything up.
but a something problem?

oh shit, eddie.
now it makes sense.

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Just one. I don't really know what it is, maybe an alien. It's got the whole 'all powerful, fucking things up' thing going for it though, so maybe a god. Who knows.

To you, maybe. It doesn't make sense to me.