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Surreal
It still seems so surreal to me. I haven't seen the specials on TV. All I've seen were pictures. We've had issues [newspaper] about it, but everything still seems to be unreal. The Pope's death is something I just read about because it's my job to do so. Though I work for a newspaper, and the front page at that, I admit I'm the most clueless--and useless--person you'll ever care to ask current events about. That's how detached I am about everything around me. It's like I exist on this plane where the only real element is me, and everything else is just a holographic image. I haven't cried over his death. Like I said it hasn't sunk in yet. Seeing his body lying like that in the papers, it's hard to believe he's gone because it seems he's just merely taking a nap. Only he's dressed like he's about to say Mass. Well, no man has ever made me feel at peace just by looking at him from a photograph, or watching him in the news, or seeing him in the Pope mobile when he went here 10 years ago. One of the most cliche questions someone can ever ask you in an interview or a simple conversation is, "If you can have a chance to talk to a great living or dead person, who would it be, what would you say to that person and why?" Well, I have never answered that question, and I have never thought about what my answer would be. I'd have loved to meet the Pope, but I'd never have known what to say to him. I would've loved to hug him, though, or go down on my knees in happiness, and kiss his blessed hands. No living person can ever move so many people the way he did.
May his soul rest in peace. Viva il Papa!
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