When you live with a potentially life-threatening condition you get used to the thought of dying. You accept it, you push on. The thing that scared me was the picture of dying slowly and painfully, the loss of independence and identity to illness.
Josh LanyonHearts got broken every day. Nobody died from that. But it did kind of fade the sunlight and drain the color from the days.
Josh LanyonPeter is ... adjusting. He's back in school, and he's doing quite well. I wish you could find it in your heart to forgive him." "I've got this funny resentful streak about people who try to kill me.
Josh LanyonI thought of the words of the Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne. "If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
Josh LanyonHe said you were on the scene when that Laurel Canyon homicide went down.โ โIโm lucky that way,โ I said. โSo are you two square again?โ I halted, mid-ripping open the cookies, and stared at him. โWell, heโs pretty square,โ I said. โIโm just a rectangular guy.โ With latent triangular tendencies.
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