And how different her face looked the first time she really liked a boy who was not on a poster on her wall. And how her face looked when she realized she was in love with that boy.

Regardless, I decided to never take LSD again.

I just hope I remember to tell my kids that they are as happy as I look in my old photographs. And I hope that they believe me.

I wish I could stop being in love with Sam. I really do.

I wanted to laugh. Or maybe get mad. Or maybe shrug at how strange everyone was, especially me.

That was always my hope that that is exactly what I would do. It was always part of the dream of this story - to write the novel and then direct the movie.

Most of the people I know who were raised to be accommodating or were raised to just be nice and put everybody's needs ahead of theirs, there comes a moment when the pressure builds and they can't do it anymore. They have needs and they feel neglected and they usually explode.