So keeping the box closed just keeps you in the dark, not the universe.

By the way, I've decided to start referring to myself exclusively as 'Daddy.' Everytime Daddy would otherwise say 'I' or 'Me,' Daddy is now going to say 'Daddy.

I wanted to, you know, get my story out in the world, which, it turns out, is a very misguided notion.

And then we were kissing.....The space around us evaporated, and for a weird moment I rally like my body; this cancer-ruined thing I'd spent years dragging around suddenly seemed worth the struggle.

But once that string gets cut, kid, you can't uncut it. Do you get what I'm saying?

Love is always a miracle, everywhere,every time. But for us, it's a little different. I don't want to say it's more miraculous,...It is though.

The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as we see ourselves