Maybe he was Filipino. Was that in Asia? Probably. Asia's out-of-control huge.

The squirrels on campus were beyond domestic; they were practically domestically abusive.

This is new to us, you know? Your mother's sorry. She's sorry that she hurt your feelings, and she wants you to invite your girlfriend over for dinner." "So that she can make her feel bad and weird?" "Well she is kind of weird, isn't she?" Park didn't have the energy to be angry. He sighed and let his head fall back on the chair. His dad kept talking. "Isn't that why you like her?

You look like a protagonist.

But he kept finding new pockets of shallow inside himself. He kept finding new ways to betray her.

And sometimes you held somebody’s hand just to prove that you were still alive, and that another human being was there to testify to that fact.

I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connecting with the people in my life.