A few days before you die you dig deep and draw on whatever final reserves of energy you have remaining, walk the 5 metres from your hospice bed to the garden where we have moved your chair and once you are settled and have caught your breath, you record a message for me to send to all your friends and family, the longest and most cogent final sentences you ever speak and this is what you say:
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