Three years ago eight hundred and one people lost their lives on Wisconsin road ways. There must be over a million people who like me see the and one as their loved one.
An even seven hundred fatal crashes killed 801 sons, daughters, fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, grandparents, friends, relatives, god children. The and one looks oddly out of place. As if it's an after thought. One for good measure. One for the road.
Maybe it's a typo? A fat finger struck the one instead of the zero. Tomorrow we may see a correction in the paper. "Correction. January 7, 2008 issue of the WI State Journal incorrectly reported in a story on traffic fatalities that 801 people died in 700 fatal crashes on Wisconsin roads in 2005. The correct numbers are 800 deaths in 699 crashes. We apologize for the error. You may go on living your life as if nothing happened. Sorry folks."
Ah, it's not going to happen that way. It is what it is. I offer no resistence to what is.
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