this) had been compelled to spend some time in a mental hospital. As willing as I’d originally been to have the company, her actual presence unsettled me—from the moment she arrived, I was agitated, on edge. I don’t know what ultimately set me off—the knowledge of what had happened to her, or my own increasingly convoluted inner workings—but what happened next came completely out of nowhere. I suddenly grabbed a blanket from my bed, ran outside, covered my head with the blanket, and then ran around wildly in the ice and snow, arms stretched out, pretending to fly. “What are you doing!?” Linda
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