Use By Date

Yeah. It took twenty years.

An idea I played with. 

Characters I dreamed about.

Random thoughts I wrote down.

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Then a friend quoted Buddha:

The trouble is, you think you've got time.

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What if we don't?

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Oh, and that was the essence of my book.

Well, sort of.

It's kind of death positive.

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As Keith Richards once said, "Nobody wants to get old but they don't want to die young either."

 

I guess a lot of us think about death.

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So I asked myself my book's central question ~ What if we had a Use By Date?

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I knew the answer:

I'd get shit done!

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​And so, I finished the book. Finally!

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It's kind of about what changes in the world when we know our use-by. I mean, imagine the businesses that would pop up if everyone knew when they would pop off?

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I think I'd also live by a quote from a character in the book, Hope's Mum (Mon, if you're not a commonwealther). 

AKA HER MAJESTY, or HM:

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“Don’t let your champagne go flat while you’re busy counting someone else’s bubbles.”

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She's the matriarch in Use By Date.

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Anyway. It's not quite a rom-com.​​​

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​I hope you enjoy the story.​​​​​​​