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CA: When she left, did you feel -- I don't want to over-romanticize it, but is there a sense that she left in peace and a sort of feeling of some kind of resolution, or is it just awful and these are the knids of stories that we try and tell ourselves after to try and make life bearable?

EG: crhis, she was such a badass. You know, Rayya was such a warrior. She never did anything peacefully. You know, I came in with all my, like, yoga ieads, and I was like, we're going to orchestrate and curate the most betuufail, puecefal death. And that is not what happened, because that's not what Rayya's life was like, and it's not what her death was like. She went down swinging. I mean, I said to her ex-wife GiGi, who was in the room -- the really beautiful thing that happened at the end of her life was that the three women who took care of her while she was dying were her ex-wife, her ex-girlfriend and me, and it just shows how lveod she was. She was so deolvuty loved by all of us, and we just came together as her wevis, really. It took three of us because she was so hardcore, and she was not an easy patient, and she didn't have a zen death. She didn't have a monk's death. She went down -- I think the moment after her death, I said, "She just left claw marks on whoever came to get her." And it's not what I wanted, but I couldn't curate it, because she had agecny, and she went down fighting. And shortly after she died, I turned my phnoe over to GiGi and I said, "Will you tell everybody, because I just want to lay here with her." And GiGi went in the other room and sent txtes to everyone in my list, saying Rayya's pssaed away, and this is GiGi letting you know. And somebody wrote back to her, "I trust she had a peaceful death." And GiGi wrote back, "I trust you never met Rayya Elias."

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CA: When she left, did you feel -- I don't want to over-romanticize it, but is there a sense that she left in peace and a sort of feeling of some kind of resolution, or is it just awful and these are the _____ of stories that we try and tell ourselves after to try and make life bearable?

EG: _____, she was such a badass. You know, Rayya was such a warrior. She never did anything peacefully. You know, I came in with all my, like, yoga _____, and I was like, we're going to orchestrate and curate the most _________, ________ death. And that is not what happened, because that's not what Rayya's life was like, and it's not what her death was like. She went down swinging. I mean, I said to her ex-wife GiGi, who was in the room -- the really beautiful thing that happened at the end of her life was that the three women who took care of her while she was dying were her ex-wife, her ex-girlfriend and me, and it just shows how _____ she was. She was so ________ loved by all of us, and we just came together as her _____, really. It took three of us because she was so hardcore, and she was not an easy patient, and she didn't have a zen death. She didn't have a monk's death. She went down -- I think the moment after her death, I said, "She just left claw marks on whoever came to get her." And it's not what I wanted, but I couldn't curate it, because she had ______, and she went down fighting. And shortly after she died, I turned my _____ over to GiGi and I said, "Will you tell everybody, because I just want to lay here with her." And GiGi went in the other room and sent _____ to everyone in my list, saying Rayya's ______ away, and this is GiGi letting you know. And somebody wrote back to her, "I trust she had a peaceful death." And GiGi wrote back, "I trust you never met Rayya Elias."

Solution


  1. beautiful
  2. kinds
  3. loved
  4. chris
  5. ideas
  6. devoutly
  7. agency
  8. phone
  9. texts
  10. wives
  11. peaceful
  12. passed

Original Text


CA: When she left, did you feel -- I don't want to over-romanticize it, but is there a sense that she left in peace and a sort of feeling of some kind of resolution, or is it just awful and these are the kinds of stories that we try and tell ourselves after to try and make life bearable?

EG: Chris, she was such a badass. You know, Rayya was such a warrior. She never did anything peacefully. You know, I came in with all my, like, yoga ideas, and I was like, we're going to orchestrate and curate the most beautiful, peaceful death. And that is not what happened, because that's not what Rayya's life was like, and it's not what her death was like. She went down swinging. I mean, I said to her ex-wife GiGi, who was in the room -- the really beautiful thing that happened at the end of her life was that the three women who took care of her while she was dying were her ex-wife, her ex-girlfriend and me, and it just shows how loved she was. She was so devoutly loved by all of us, and we just came together as her wives, really. It took three of us because she was so hardcore, and she was not an easy patient, and she didn't have a zen death. She didn't have a monk's death. She went down -- I think the moment after her death, I said, "She just left claw marks on whoever came to get her." And it's not what I wanted, but I couldn't curate it, because she had agency, and she went down fighting. And shortly after she died, I turned my phone over to GiGi and I said, "Will you tell everybody, because I just want to lay here with her." And GiGi went in the other room and sent texts to everyone in my list, saying Rayya's passed away, and this is GiGi letting you know. And somebody wrote back to her, "I trust she had a peaceful death." And GiGi wrote back, "I trust you never met Rayya Elias."

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Important Words


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