Things Won’t Always Be This Good
Spring, and other reminders that it’s better not to be dead
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7 min readApr 29, 2019
A few days after his fortieth birthday, a friend of mine fell out of the sky. His friends have always known this was a hazard of his favorite activity, which is leaping out of airplanes. Nonetheless it was horrifying to see the photos he sent of the Wile E. Coyote-like hole in a warehouse roof, and to watch…