Adults, light-years away from this, rolled their eyes and smirked and said, "this too shall pass" - as if adolescence was a disease like chicken pox, something everyone recalled as a mild nuisance, completely forgetting how painful it had been at the time.

“But Marice, he rode off to save you, and wound up leaving you behind forever. I…”

“There's a cliff at the end point of a person's life; most us of peer over the e…”

“When I was tiny, the county fair came through town. Our parents took us, and go…”

“A fire can't burn forever. Eventually, it consumes itself.”