Because I Could Not Stop for Death

He kindly passed me by

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You know how you sometimes swallow something that’s a little too big and you have to relax and wait for it to make its way along your throat? That just happened to me. I sent a little coffee in after it to help it slide down. The next thing I knew there was a clunk and I jerked my head up.