Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the Staring Business.

“But alas, the world is not a wish-granting factory.”

“It is saying these things that keeps us from falling apart. And maybe by imagin…”

“The joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your ill…”

“The things that hurt us are often the things that help us, and the whole dichot…”