Even when I was a kid and saw roadkill—raccoons with bugs in their brains or squirrels who fell out of trees and broke their skulls on the ground and bled out—it felt the same as everything else. There’s trees that get sticky with sap and grass that needs to be cut and beehives under the porch and squirrel blood on the sidewalk, and it’s all part of the world, you know? It wasn’t shocking, it just was.”
