“Don’t worry, man,” he said, evenly. “Whatever they do to you, they gonna do to all of us.” I thought about this all night, after the sounds quieted and most everyone else outside seemed to be asleep. At first, I thought what he was saying was We all got your back, but the more I thought about it, I think he was actually saying No one in here suffers alone, which is close to the same thing but also decidedly not.
