Once, I asked my mom why stars shine. She said they were night-lights, so the angels could find their way around in Heaven. But when I asked my dad, he started talking about gas, and somehow I put it all together and figured that the food God served caused multiple trips to the bathroom in the middle of the night.

You know how I get angry sometimes? That's because it's the only way I can still feel. And I need to test myself, to make sure I'm really here.

Maybe a mother wasn't what she seemed to be on the surface.

and another claimed it was inherited through a parent who was a carrier of the defective gene. I had always assumed the latter was the case with Claire. After all, surely a child who grew out of grief would be born with a heavy heart.

At home I was raped by a guy i thought I loved' Trixie said, because thats what it was to her and always would be.

I'm weird. Everyone says so.

You know how hind-sight is 20/20? Love is when you look back and wouldn't change anything.