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Old Jan 15, 2017, 10:00 AM
leejosepho leejosepho is offline
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I sometimes wonder if it's possible to pass away from being so lonely and depressed.
I have heard people can die from being broken-hearted...

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I keep my feelings buried so they don't destroy anyone but me...
I am old school as hell and the old ways...don't seem to matter anymore. ��
You and I are not alone, and here is some of the latest undeniable evidence of the reality of today:
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After 146 years, the curtain is coming down on "The Greatest Show on Earth." The owner of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus told The Associated Press that the show will close forever in May [of 2017].
...felled by a variety of factors...
"The competitor in many ways is time," said Feld, adding that transporting the show by rail and other circus quirks — such as providing a traveling school for performers' children— are throwbacks to another era. "It's a different model that we can't see how it works in today's world to justify and maintain an affordable ticket price. So you've got all these things working against it."

https://www.apnews.com/020bc7b2f16f4446ade338bcf4a500ed
Every day presents yet another challenge to try to find some way to spend it without falling into what seems like complete nothingness, and each day spent as well as we can means we grow one day closer to the end without losing ourselves along the way.

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