Pain is a blunt and non-specific diagnostic instrument.

“I know it doesn't feel this way all the time, but we get to choose what we care…”

“He was too smart for the kinds of solace I could offer.”

“People always get used to beauty, though.”“I haven’t gotten used to you just ye…”

“So afterward, while I was getting eviscerated by chemo, for some reason I decid…”