..I've been trying to argue myself into thinking these things don't matter, A. Really,I have. But I've lost the argument. And I can't keep having it, when I know what the real answer is.

I can take everything on her face at face value, and that's valuable in a friend.

I am here because of love.

Maybe, it's not the distance that's the problem, but how you handle it.

Your life is inescapable. Unless you decide to escape it.

Every you, every me. Fractals. Fractures.

simon: that's disgusting! me: what's disgusting? simon: you know. you put your thing in the place where he, um, defecates.