I like the word "just" because of its inherent humility.

"just ourselves"--here juxtaposed with "immortality..."

Death and the "I" here are just...well, just. And just the end points of life--but, ah, immortality--that's altogether different! That's the great concept, the great intuitive leap, all the hope and faith!

Emily's use of "just" is both reverberant with humility and even has a tang of "justice" itself--but that's probably an overreading on my part. Still, I can see what's just in her "just."

Just procrastinating here,
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