And I found myself whistling "Birdland"

[This is actually an academic paper I just wrote for The Psychology of Death and Dying, but it turned into a cross between a magazine article and a journal entry. Some of the beginning may be familiar to you because I lifted it from an actual journal entry. (If you can't plagiarize from yourself, who can you plagiarize from? Anyway, Oscar Wilde did it all the time.) Do not judge my paper-writing abilities on this; it's supposed to be touchy-feely and center on "personal growth." ::chokes back amusement::]

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