“Don’t be ashamed to be a human being—be proud! Inside you one vault after another opens endlessly. You’ll never be complete, and that’s as it should be.” Louisa hugs herself then. Ted carefully cleans his glasses and says: “Kimkim used to sit in a window looking down at the street and ask how everyone else could bear to be human.” “What did you tell him?” Louisa asks. “I said that maybe we could learn how.” “Have you figured it out yet?” “Maybe I’m on my way. That’s all anyone can be.”
