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“I guess we all have something we’re afraid to let go of.”
Why save a life if all human life was due to be snuffed out? But physicians don’t really save lives, of course, we prolong them; and failing that, we provide palliative care and relief from pain. Which might prove to be the most useful skill of all.
But it was the kind of experience, Molly said, that would grow calluses on an angel’s ass.
A generation of grotesques. That’s why we’re all divorced or promiscuous or hyperreligious or depressed or manic or dispassionate.
I made no demands and I made it clear that I expected no reward.
It was the canyon that defined the bridge, and the bridge we had built was pleasing and strong.
No, not sure. But willing. Willing, finally, to lose what might be lost, willing to embrace what might be gained.
