Dreams

So, I dreamed that there was an apartment building that was actually a home for elderly vampires. Two of the vampires had been companions for a long, long time, and often went out among the youngsters--they could make themselves look whatever ages they liked, but reverted to a late sixtyish appearance when alone--to largely watch the humans and go 'those were the days'. One of the other tenants was a vampire named Collins, who had a thing for theatre. He could quote about any play ever made off the top of his head, and had a penchant for referring to others by their place in the narrative fabric...a kind of unstable guy, but his predictions based on how the story 'should' go were right more often than not, which gave him a special kind of status in the building. People would consult him (usually while offering Broadway tickets), and so forth. Collins was close to another vampire who is brutally and mysteriously murdered.

The vampiric couple return back to building after hearing of her death, and there's a huge ruckus up on the top floor where Collins lives. They run up the stairs to find Collins levitating and tearing into the walls, demanding to find the Carolyn-character's words...the vampire's name who died was not Carolyn, but he insisted it was, and the walls of his apartment were plastered in quotes, poetry, and posters. The building security guard was there, trying to talk Collins down, but the vampire became more and more agitated, until he finally leapt upon the security guard in a frenzy. Shots were fired, and Collins was killed, just at the couple notice, carved into a closet door with what looked like fingernails, "All I Really Want Is To Be Left Alone." But beneath it, a poster covered something that appeared to be pulsing, and the male of the couple reached out and started tearing at the paper, revealing more words, red light blazing behind them. And just as enough was revealed that I could start to read it, I woke up.

How was your night?

You knew this was coming, yes?

From The New York Times

"We see a direct connection between the practice of contraception and the practice of abortion," says Judie Brown, president of the American Life League, an organization that has battled abortion for 27 years but that, like others, now has a larger mission. "The mind-set that invites a couple to use contraception is an antichild mind-set," she told me. "So when a baby is conceived accidentally, the couple already have this negative attitude toward the child. Therefore seeking an abortion is a natural outcome. We oppose all forms of contraception."

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