The running commentary, the loving support, the jokes and the observations and the random thoughts that are made a little less random when they’re shared. The desire to be heard is as deeply seeded as the desire to be loved.

“But if I didn’t want to be alone, then why didn’t I want to be with anyone else?”

“She went on. "There's the drown of things and the swim of things, I guess. I've…”

“Curses aren’t passive things. They’ll fight back.”

“I never have people tell me their stories. I usually have to figure them out my…”