[ WP ] First line `` I remember when a day was only 24 hours long . ''

I remember when a day was only 24 hours long. Granted, to almost everyone else on this planet, a day is still 24 hours long. When I was offered the gift of immortality by the devil many centuries ago, I took it without second thought, not thinking of the words he said to me. 
 
 It feels like I've seen, and done it all. I've fought with and against the legendary Saladin. I've served under kings, I witnessed the Medici rise to prominence. I was a close friend of Shakespeare, Musashi and Napoleon. Recently, I've witnessed the formation of the United States, the founding of Australia, Bloody Sunday and 2 World Wars. I was there for the overthrowing of an empire in China. 
 
 Now, I own a bookstore. I live alone in a small town in Oregon, time slowly passing me by, waiting for the devil to rescue me from my own personal hell. The words he said to me that fateful day, when I took his offer of immortality, scared of my own death, resonate in me. 
 
 `` The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.'' 
 
 As the hands tick on by, I feel as though I've been stuck in the same 24 hours for the past hundred years or so. Days still are 24 hours long, but for one as old as me, it seems like they are a hell of a lot longer.
