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I know science I know that it is possible for so, and they‘ve been working over Mitch for a long, long, long time I think it was Rebecca who once told ood chance of pulling through I guess that explains me

But it‘s been awfully quiet these last few hours Awfully quietand I am so afraid to really let myself knohat that means

Weird, how I didn‘t quite understand what Mitch was trying to tell me when he said that, but I do now He felt the way my mother did when those Marines came to the door

Mitch‘s fear was fed by the sa Matt‘s e-ain

Because if you can just hold off the moment when you must confront reality, ti that life will continue as you‘ve known it: that nothing--not even so as wonderful and as terrible as love--has broken your world beyond repair

So I think I‘ll stay here a little while longer There‘s plenty of tiurney and open that door and rejoin the rest of you

There‘s all the time I have left on Earth

There‘s the rest of my life

When I do leave this room, I don‘t knoill happen next My ht die DadI don‘t think he‘ll change, no ht of soone, they can use his skin forMitch, he would be They‘ll parcel him out in little pieces, an eye here, a kidney there So why not his skin? They could flay his body and cocoon her with hi bit of all that he ould help heal my poor mother--and how ironic would that be?

For that iveto shoot for

And iveness

I just remembered Danielle and David It‘s still Friday NoSaturday? I‘ve lost track But Monday will roll around soon enough, and Danielle will get her abortion Or she won‘t Either they‘ll get in touch with their folks, or Mitch was lying

But I was on the ice with him, Bobby-o, and you weren‘t So I don‘t think he was I think everything Mitch said out there--every word--was the truth

Every Word

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You probably want ret Mitch You want me to see that he lied, was some kind of predator; that I‘m a victim, like you said But Mitch was broken, too, in his way and just asto fixhimself in the only way he kne