Whistling in the Dark

[Sabre] And you know something? You know something wholly remarkable? Something my father told me today that never occured to me before this moment?
[Frobozz] Yo?
[Sabre] I get to bring everyone with me.
[Sabre] I get to bring you and Van and Eag and Narn and Mason and the INL crew and Bruce and everyone.
[Frobozz] Yup. ;-) That's the beauty of the online system. We keep touch no matter the distance.
[Sabre] I have my friends. They love me, and I can bring them with me. I have had the surgery, eminantly successfully. I am already able to walk farther than I could before it. My face is already thinner.
[Sabre] I'm free, Frob. I made it. I won. And now I have the world.
[Frobozz] Yes you are. And now... and now... you can admit that everyone who said you were going to make it was right. ;-) And it's very, very good to be able to say that, because it does mean you've won.

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"You know, if you don't want to run again, I respect that. But if you don't run because you think it's going to be too hard or you think you're gonna lose...? Well, God Jed. I don't even want to know you."

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I have my friends. They love me, no matter what. And they will come with me no matter what.

I have my family. They love me, no matter what. They support me, no matter what. They will back me, no matter what.

I have had my surgery, eminently successfully. And it is proceeding exactly as expected, beginning to end. Which means that my health is coming back to me at last. Already, I can walk farther than I could before the surgery.

I won.

I am free.