It's just a crazy damned life, that's all.

I stare at her for a long moment. I want to kiss her. I want to kiss her more than I've ever wanted anything in my life.

I have to convince myself that this is not a pointless life, even the body is telling me so.

The sky the sky- same as it always was.

With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.

I just think I'm better equipped to make a study of human personality than trying to get into the mind of animals.

But it all zipped by. One minute Marlena and I were up to our eyeballs, and the next thing we knew the kids were borrowing the car and fleeing the coop for college. And now, here I am. In my nineties and alone.