My Father Always Told Me: 'give Somebody

It's Like A Kid Standing At The Window Watching The Rain.

His Heart, Like Mine, Was Ticking Off The Time Allotted To His Small Restless Body.

If I'm Going To Merely Ramble, Maybe I Should Just Snuggle Under The Warm Covers, Think Of Miu, And Play With Myself.

I Used To Run A Full Marathon In Three Hours And 25 Or 26 Minutes. Not Any More.

A Life Without Pain: It Was The Very Thing I Had Dreamed Of For Years, But Now That I Had It, I Couldn’t Find A Place For Myself Within It. A Clear Gap Separated Me From It, And This Caused Me Great Confusion. I Felt As If I Were Not Anchored To This World - This World That I Had Hated So Passionately Until Then; This World That I Had Continued To Revile For Its Unfairness And Injustice; This World Where At Least I Knew Who I Was. Now The World Ceased To Be The World, And I Had Ceased To Be Me.