He thought about all of the people in movies he'd seen who know somehow that they will die, but don't know that the movie will end. That's what Hell must be like, he said; to have salvation just around the next corner without the realization that it's there for you, like an emergency door, or a Get Out Of Jail free card; to see the horror all around you, knowing that you are a part of it, but not knowing that there is an end where the Director cries "Cut! That's a wrap" and all of the actors take up their real lives and go to their rooms and remove the make-up and take off the doomed clothing that doesn't belong to them, but to some character that has been created to move a story line forward, and then meet up with the people they love to have a drink or a meal or to just relax against each other in a darkened movie theatre.

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