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Is Uvebruce Going To Die, and Who Will Get His Followers?

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2 min readMar 16, 2025

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heart shaped piece of wood held between two hands
The Gift of Followers (Photo by Kelly Sikkema)

I don’t want anyone to accuse me of clickbait. The answer to the first part of the question is yes.

Uvebruce had a heart attack for Christmas, and he’s going to die.

One day.
But not today.
(And hopefully not tomorrow.)

Thanks to his heart attack, he got to meet Roberto at the hospital, and it was love at first sight. It warmed my heart to read Uvebruce’s description.

“He’s 6’4” in his socks and when he smiles a twinkle forms in his eyes and the sun comes out to play.”

It warmed my heart because if Uvebruce loved Roberto, it could mean an opening with his wife.

She made a mistake when she married Uvebruce instead of me some twenty years ago, but I’m willing to forgive her because we share a similar sense of humor. She finds “human pain and suffering” funny and “is already making jokes about Uvebruce’s recent heart attack.”

What a woman! As a sapiosexual, it was love at first dark-humor joke for me.

And after such a long time, there’s a good chance she might also be tired of Uvebruce. I know I would. She bought him a pill cutter for his birthday. I think it’s a sign. I guess she…

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