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The dead talk to us. They tell us their stories, the tales they carry from this life to the next, the underworld, the upper-world, whichever imagined destination comforts you in the absence of those who are gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are the stories we want to tell; <\/strong>these are the stories worth the struggle of the telling. But we must retrieve them and bring them back to this side, to the world where we, the not-yet-dead, navigate our time under a sky of dim stars, always hoping for a brighter path to where we are going, to what we will become.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the los<\/em> panteones<\/em>,<\/strong> I walk amid the dead. I listen, I lean in, I strain to hear their voices. I have questions for them: Who were you? How did you live? Why did you die so young? What awaits me when I join you? What I hear in response are the rustle of dry leaves, the murmur of a street cat slinking amid the tombs, the pleadings of someone praying nearby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I tell the dead: <\/strong>I have come for your stories. Lend them to me and I will share them with those you left behind and those who are yet to arrive. I still myself. I drop into my own silence, erasing every memory of every sound I have ever heard so I can detect the voices of the dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faint but audible,<\/strong> a distant chorus, an eternal echo rewards my patience. The voices answer in unison: \u201cCome closer, come closer and we will tell you everything.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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