Picture the moment when your mom and dad first saw you as something other than a pretty, tiny version of them. You as them, but improved. Better educated. Innocent. Then picture when you stopped being their dream.

“What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Wh…”

“And sometimes being mutilated can work to your advantage. All those people now …”

“Now is the autumn of our ennui.”

“Of all the priceless objects left behind, this is what we rescue. These artifac…”