Because memories fall apart, too. And then you're left with nothing, left not even with a ghost but with its shadow.

“You can fight with me," I said. I put my controller down and leaned back on our…”

“The longer I do my job ... the more I realize that humans lack good mirrors. It…”

“And as paralyzing and upsetting as all the never agains were, the final leaving…”

“Reading it the night before, I'd wondered if it would be like that for me-if in…”