[Chris Tanz]

Wow guys, thanks for some great posts! This has helped me. I am particularily intrigued by your post Chris. Please explain further with this if you wish. The way you structured this even sounds Gord Downie-ish to me. But what I'm taking from it is that dying a thousand times is actually our failed attempts at maintaining "being true to eachother", even our desperate attempts. Nevertheless still attempts which indicates good and human intentions. And this sheds a dark but also hopeful and optimistic light on the sentence, and I must admit I wanted it to mean something like this.
Am I hitting on your thoughts, or no?

See my Athabasca Depends post -- I think I'm stuck on a theme. Definitely I think there is optimism ("good and human intentions") in the "we've died a thousand times since then" part. If there was no optimism, nothing positive, we would have died once and not been friends. We wouldn't have bothered trying the other 999 times.

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