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“We have many lives, Afong, but this life begins when we realize we only have one.”
right person, okay? I work—constantly. And believe it or not, I’m happy.” Or at least okay, Greta thought, the next-door neighbor to the gated community of happiness. I’ll find my way in there someday. Either that or I’ll become the mayor of Okayville.
Even the Amazon workers looked happy.
“As the US poet laureate Anis Mojgani once said about toddlers: They cannot be understood because they speak half English and half God.”
To be so well known and yet so unknown at the same time, the madness of—as
Andrea Gibson and wondered if, perhaps, Louis’s mom was right: Our insanity is not that we see people who aren’t there, it’s that we ignore the ones who are.
