Hey everyone! I'm really interested in this topic, as is my girlfriend Jenna (she's not a member of the group, but she participated at the meet up last Friday). It seems there is no official space left, but would it be alright if she came? Thanks.

(1) Once there was a man who cheated Death. She came to take him, but he did not want to go. And he was a smart and wily man, so he began to distract her. He talked and talked to her, engaging her eyes and captivating her with his intelligence and wit, and finally convinced her to climb into a bottle he had on the shelf. When she did, he promptly put a cork in the bottle, trapping her inside. She kicked and screamed, but could not free herself from the bottle. She was his prisoner?

(2) From then on, no one in the town died for several years. People lived to be 100, 150, 200, and more. The town grew and grew, because new babies were being born every day, but no one died. And the man began to get bored. He had lived so much that life was beginning to mean less and less to him. So one day, he decided that maybe it was time to let Death out of the bottle. As soon as she was free, she took off like a frightened horse. The man was never to see her again?

(3) Gradually, people began to die again in the town, because she had gone back to work. But she never came for the man again. And he aged, and aged, and finally he had done everything there was to do on earth, so he went to spend the rest of his meaningless eternity alone, in the moon. (I forget where I heard that story, but thought I?d share it)

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