VOICE.

[barebacking]

An odd question, I am sure, but I wonder...

I thought of the ghosts and the waters, and the idea that death could be just around the corner. That is that those of us that are just about to slip into that darkness may one day wake up to be choking on our own blood.

Forgive me for such a ... unfortunate image, but my point is ... how many of you have someone who you are close to? How many can say that you have met someone who makes your life worth it all, even if death may be so close? Even if this may all just be a dream?

This need not be romantic, I suppose, but friendship as well.

After all, sometimes it is friendship that can save a life, too, right?

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[barebacking]

[ Teasingly: ] Even though you are Greed?

[youjustlivehere]

Especially because I'm Greed. People can be collected just as much as anything else. [And of course his strongest desire was the drive to form close connections with others]

[barebacking]

I fear I don't understand. [ No, he does. He just wants to hear this man's take on it. ]

[youjustlivehere]

People, well most people, like to collect other people. Friends, family, some people even collect lovers and a whole lot of 'em collect sexual partners. It's pretty natural for a greedy person like me to want to collect people as well as more traditional objects of desire.

[barebacking]

I suppose that you are right.

So I have to ask, have I been collected yet?

[youjustlivehere]

[Well there's a question he'd never thought someone would ask] I don't think so. Not yet anyway, I mean we've only talked like twice right?

[barebacking]

That's correct.

But it never hurts to ask, right?

[youjustlivehere]

Yeah can't argue with that.

[barebacking]

I'd be hurt if you did.