Look Closer

by David Ellis

As a wise woman once told me: The best lies are the ones closest to the truth.

I’m not laid-back. I’m anything but laid-back. I’m stubborn. There’s a difference.

Do you worry more about how others see you than how you see yourself?

They have to learn to fight for themselves.

“I don’t know what it was, why she was so taken with him,” he says. “When you’re a kid, you don’t realize—I mean, they’re just your parents. In hindsight, I mean, she was twenty times the person he was in every way, but God, she just swooned over him. He was everything to her.

declaring war on our grief. —

Funny how people care so much what you think of them, even if you’ve never met before and probably won’t ever cross paths again.