CureFan17 @CureFan17: Did anyone make a backup of the universe? #TooLateNow
Clare Murillo @Clare_83: @EricBullen It's not about me, it's about us. There used to be an "us." Remember the good times we had?
Eric Bullen @EricBullen: @Clare_83 You certainly had some good times. Of course, I wasn't there for all of them.
Clare Murillo @Clare_83: @EricBullen Oh, we've been through all that--it wasn't what you think. Stop obsessing over it. Let go of your anger.
Marie Sainte-Beuve @MarieSainteBeuve: Guess I'd better hurry up and start reading Remembrance of Things Past. Don't want to have any regrets!
Eric Bullen @EricBullen: @Clare_83 Let go of my anger? Now you're turning into Yoda.
Clare Murillo @Clare_83: @EricBullen Soon we'll all be dead. Is this how you want to die: full of anger?
Eric Bullen @EricBullen: @Clare_83 Is this how you want to die: constantly harking back to the past?
Clare Murillo @Clare_83: @EricBullen Since there isn't going to be any future, the past is all we've got.
Eric Bullen @EricBullen: @Clare_83 That doesn't mean I have to be happy about it.
CureFan17 @CureFan17: I never learned to play the guitar #TooLateNow
Clare Murillo @Clare_83: @EricBullen OK, whatever. I tried my best. I'll leave you in peace to die alone and full of bitterness. Enjoy your apocalypse.
Eric Bullen @EricBullen: @Clare_83 Well, I'm sure you have plenty of other guys to try and make up with before the end. Good luck squeezing them all in.
Marie Sainte-Beuve @MarieSainteBeuve: I haven't gone down to the woods to see this year's bluebells yet. #TooLateNow
Clare Murillo @Clare_83: @EricBullen That's uncalled for. But I forgot that you always had to have the last word. So I'll let you have it, if it makes you happy.
Eric Bullen @EricBullen: @Clare_83 Thanks. You always were considerate like that. Just not in other ways.
CureFan17 @CureFan17: Should have prayed harder #TooLateNow
Clare Murillo @Clare_83: Wow, did everyone see that? Looks very close now....
Marie Sainte-Beuve @MarieSainteBeuve: Best fireworks ever!
CureFan17 @CureFan17: OK, own up: who decoded the Voynich manuscript?
Eric Bullen @EricBullen: It's getting bad here. Not long till the end, I guess.
Bowl of Petunias @Bowl_of_petunias: Oh no, not again.
James Holcroft @AuthorJimmy: There's still time to buy my book... #WellItMightBeAFalseAlarm
Marie Sainte-Beuve @MarieSainteBeuve: Did you ever tell your mother you love her? #TooLateNow
CureFan17 @CureFan17: Did you ever tell your boss to fuck off? #TooLateNow
Eric Bullen @EricBullen: If this is it, if this is really it... then how did I end up like this?
Marie Sainte-Beuve @MarieSainteBeuve: Let's all try harder next time.
CureFan17 @CureFan17: @MarieSainteBeuve There won't be a next time!
Marie Sainte-Beuve @MarieSainteBeuve: @CureFan17 There will for me, I'm a Buddhist.
Eric Bullen @EricBullen: I'm here, all alone. And it turns out that having the last word isn't so great after all.
Eric Bullen @EricBullen: Not when it really is the last word, in the last hour of the last day.
Eric Bullen @EricBullen: Clare, you were right and I'm sorry.
Eric Bullen @EricBullen: Clare?
Eric Bullen @EricBullen: Anyone??
Eric Bullen @EricBullen: @Clare_83 Clare, are you there?
Eric Bullen @EricBullen: I love you #goodbye
The End
This story was first published on Thursday, November 29th, 2012
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