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I never got the sense that anybody heard me speak.
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After a few hours on his portable earth thinking machine, Rocky eventually closed the lid and sat there above Grace, just watching.
He watched his lungs pull in shallow breaths of oxygen.
He watched his weakening heart pump blood through his veins.
He watched his empty stomach and intestines atrophy.
He watched every lingering sign of life, just like he's watched them slowly leave his mate little by little, every night for the last four earth years.
That night, Rocky came to the conclusion that he didn't believe in any sort of ‘God’ either.
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Rocky tasks himself with writing Grace's eulogy.