Chapter - 15 Family Resemblance
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Oh crap! I had a digital footprint to worry about? School ID, driver's license, social media, security cameras! The thought was more than I could take. How was I going to erase myself!
Chuck saw my panic and chuckled. "It's OK. I know it's overwhelming. The problem isn't the pictures you have now, it is when you stop aging or a few hundred years pass and someone runs across an old picture of you. There can only be so many cases of "family resemblance" that are believable."
"I'm really going to live forever? Is there any way I can die? This seems like a curse to me." I said.
"If there's a way to die I haven't found it yet. And yes it can be a curse. I've had to watch everyone I love grow old and die. I've had to live through multiple heartbreaks. I've had to bury my own children that died from old age. It's brutal." he said. "Every few decades you need to uproot everything and start a new life somewhere else. Before anyone realizes you don't age. That's how I've gone so many different places and done so many different things. I've reinvented myself more times than I can count. I've been an Egyptian architect building the pharaohs pyramids. I've been a lover of Cleopatra's. A Greek philosopher, a soldier in more conflicts than I can count, I fought the fires when Rome burned. I've done so much and lived so many lifetimes that I can't recall them all." he finished. "Have you ever wanted to die?" I ask. "Yes. Many times. Whenever I lost my wife or children I wished I could join them. Sleeping with them below the ground. Not having to feel the brokenness that comes with loss."
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