Since I Was A Small Child, I

Life's One Great Lesson Was: Do Not Care. Not Caring Was A Person's Real Protection.

Nature Compensates For Its Mistakes.

As Pathetic As It Was, She'd Rather Hold On To The Possibility Of Something Perfect Than Be Hit With The Reality Of Nothing Much.

But The Way I See It, Dying Without Knowing Love Would Be A Tragedy.

I Always Loved Reading. Growing Up, My Favorite Book Was 'a Child's Garden Of Verses,' By Robert Louis Stevenson.