3 Works by sunsetstripped
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part ii of 'BLEED ME DRY'
"People never tell you how you're supposed to adjust after you die and come back. How you're supposed to feel when somebody tells you that you just died, but not really. You're a niche group of people really, you've been given a second shot and you wonder why you were given it.
"I was lucky my bodyguard came to see me at that exact minute. That he had a key. That he knew CPR. It's not some great triumph or because your body decides you're going to keep living, it's because you were in the right place at the right time. I always swore that when I died, I'd fight and I'd kick and scream and I wouldn't go gently into the night. But I did. I was so convinced I had control over that one thing. Death. That somehow I could pull the strings. I guess I'm the fool.
"I remember the last thing I thought of as well, it was to remind Axl to get more beers for the fourth of July, we weren't going anywhere, we were just gonna watch a movie, I think it was The Godfather. I remember I didn't tell him I love you on the phone, like I should have. I should have said it more, I still should. Everyone should."
// Skin of my teeth: A for the record interview with Adrianna Rose, 1995 (aired in 2019)
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- Part 2 of Bleed Me Dry
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formerly known as suck it and see
part i of 'BLEED ME DRY'
“So…you met your fiancée in a bathroom, at a party?”
“Yeah,”
“Did you know who she was?”
“No.”
“So you talked to a random woman you didn’t know at a company party? In a bathroom?”
“Yeah…and then I realized she was the chick from the Levi’s ad, the ‘I want your sex’ one.”
MTV interview with Axl Rose regarding his first meeting with his fiancée Andy Bernow, 1991
OR: A tired stranger trying to escape life for a minute finds another tired stranger doing the exact same thing. It changes things.
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- Part 1 of Bleed Me Dry
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Her hands had calluses all the way from the tips to the knuckles, a consequence of washing blood, cigarette ash and grass stains from clothes. He loved the comfort he found in those calluses, when she would run them through his strawberry hair, pat his leg with encouragement after a bad day at school and, sometimes, when she would brush away tears after a particularly terrible service.
That had been years ago.
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Bill dreams of summer and escapes.