It's Raining Spiders in Brazil
        The Presidents of The United States of America, "Peaches" (1995)

When you're 35, for example, it's about not saying phrases like "the thrum of truth." These things are not merely epistolary. It's about a tradition of stories where someone leaves a body. People don't remember how we played dead among the real dead. Now it's all like un-select the new option so they can't see you. This can't be more prideful than it already is, but it turns out you wouldn't know about it and you still don't know. So. How do we keep baby Jesus in the manger? Armies of characters still cling to completing the voyage in a gregarious and gamely style. If you stare at Trenton long enough, it will go away.

Sometimes it's not an earth-shattering moment.
It's raining spiders in Brazil.

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