I Would Rather Be Dead Than Not

It's Easier To Die If Others Around You Are Dying.

We Face Up To Awful Things Because We Can't Go Around Them, Or Forget Them. The Sooner You Get It Over With, The Sooner You Say 'yes, It Happened, And There's Nothing I Can Do About It,' The Sooner You Can Get On With Your Own Life. You've Got Children To Bring Up. So You've Got To Get Over It. What We Have To Get Over, Somehow We Do. Even The Worst Things.

I Think It's Important To Leave Spaces In A Story For Readers To Fill In From Their Own Experience.

...all Them Things I Don't Know Could Get You Killed If I Come To Know Them

You Know, One Of The Tragedies Of Real Life Is That There Is No Background Music.