And the beautiful way that you choose to survive

One of these ideas will be in the next book, one will not.

"She said in some odd combination of miracles they had all of the same allergies and together they would run into fields of pollen and hold sneezing contests. Who sneezed the loudest, and who could string the most sneezes together. The sneezing always ended in laughter, she told me, and what better way to spend your time than to laugh with someone. We were left on our best days baptizing our hands in our tears."


"It was all unbearable,...