The mosquitoes here are big enough to rape a chicken.

Nobody's really paying that much attention to your massive personal dramas.

Teach your heart that this is destiny

In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.

But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.

Felipe and I, as we discover to our delight, are a perfectly matched, genetically engineered belly-to-belly success story.

You know the old adage: Plant an expectation, reap a disappointment.