Maybe he was more than the sum of his broken parts.

I had forgotten that, and so many things. How could I put everything down on paper? It seemed impossible. No matter what, the majority of life would be left out of this story, this sliver of a version of the life I'd known. But I tried anyway.

We lose weeks like buttons, like pencils.

They were so in love with the world, and so disappointed in every aspect of it.

Hello Frances, I have just been to health class, and I was wondering how your feminine parts were developing.

I went to public school all my life and all through college and I liked it.

WHEN we don't get the results we want in our military endeavors, we don't blame the soldiers.