Written Portions of Scientific Method Series

P R O B L E M :

I've kept a different dirty secret from each one of you,
And I've skirted the responsibility of loving you for this long,
But your pain is catching up with your wits
And I don't know if I have the energy to say No anymore.

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H Y P O T H E S I S :

I think it's all going to catch up with me,
But I've never been one to look ahead.
It's hard enough lying through today
Without knowing what I'll have to hide tomorrow.

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E X P E R I M E N T :

- Keep conscious in company
- Show interest occasionally
- Engage in conversation when questioned
- Personal hygiene
- Keep in contact with family and friends
- Laugh in company
- Change clothes daily
- Acknowledge romantic advances
- Go to sleep voluntarily (before dawn)
- Have a plausible reason when spending money
- Look forward
- Believe in happiness
- Ignore death and dying

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O B S E R V A T I O N S :

Good Grief
Witch King
Extreme Apathy
Holy Hell
Lone Wolf
Drugs
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Dead Inside
Quality of Life

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C O N C L U S I O N :

You are the only people I've ever really known,
Or maybe this is the first time in our lives that we have had something worth knowing.
If any of you die, I will ______________________.

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