It had felt as if he were grieving for people who had died long before he'd come into the world, and had found himself forever unfulfilled, as if he'd been born without some vital component necessary for total happiness. He'd drifted, seeking people more emotionally deficient than himself, for in them he found a kinship. The shared unhappiness did not cancel either out, but neither did it exacerbate it, and this was how he lived.
