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Card #c366IR // #c366Verbatim excerpt
When she returned, rushing back from Max's after the phone call, his body was already on a stretcher, surrounded by paramedics in no rush, and in that instant, she understood: Death can happen to anyone, at any time.

— Source: Motherclown (Harriet Alida Lye)

[Use when]

Use when mortality needs a concrete scene, not a slogan.

[Why it matters]

The lesson arrives as spectacle and bureaucracy — paramedics in no rush.

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