The truth is, wherever you choose to be, it's the wrong place.
Love is a skill you learn.
Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.
These stories are ghosts, bringing people back from the dead. Just for a moment. For a visit. Every story is a ghost.
There was no real sense of life because she had nothing to contrast it with.
Beginning with Santa in infancy, and ending with the Tooth Fairy as the child acquires adult teeth. Or, plainly put, beginning with all the possibility of childhood, and ending with an absolute trust in the national currency.