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I knew her heart would be the death of her.

December 4, 2009
By Charlie GOLD, Virginia Beach, Virginia
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"So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be."

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the sirens atop the ambulance
collide with my racing heart.
"will she survive?"
"can she see another day?"
speak panicking voices.

a blur of cloaked bodies
run to and fro beside me.
each time one passes,
I feel another breath
slip past my cold lips.

"get me the defibrillator!"
"what's happening?"
shock after shock-
nothing.
the green line stops spiking
and goes flat forever.

"I knew her heart would be the death of her"
was the last thing I heard
before I went into a state
of permanent, peaceful slumber.

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