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Tragedy

There my blog post has the word tragedy right there in the title! Mission complete. Thanks folks for showing up and seeing me accomplish this feat. You were a great crowd, I love you, have a great night, drive safe. But anyway... Tragedy stories are a concept I have little experience with. Besides the few we read here at school, and possibly an occasional cautionary fairy tail along the way, I have just not read many. I think this is partially due to my preference in pleasure reading books, (terrible 70s science fiction novels) and just not a huge interest in this kind of story. I enjoy seeing happy endings, or at most someone failing because they deserve it. However the tragedy is marked by the fall from grace through fate, and that is often a painful thing to watch. It reminds you that no matter how good your life and situation seems, suddenly it could all go away without much of your own input. They remind us all that life can be cruel and unfair at any time. At this point howev