She was nothing but good and I was nothing but bad, but then she died, and I didn't.

This was the first time in my life that so many things would never happen again.

I would argue that stupidity is born out of bad reading, bad teaching and bad thinking!

I liked being a person. I wanted to keep at it.

She waited for me to play out the string, to find the place where she had stopped and was waiting for me, to follow the breadcrumb tail until it dead-ended into her.

I stand in this parking lot, realizing that I’ve never been this far from home, and here is this girl I love and cannot follow. I hope this is the hero’s errand, because not following her is the hardest thing I’ve ever done.

Ashes to ashes. Garage sale to garage sale,” I said.