"When people die, Vargas - I mean the people you will always remember, the ones who changed your life - they never really go away," Pepe told the you… - John Irving

Almost everyone is dying to leave home, eventually; and almost everyone needs to.

As for the river, it just kept moving,as river do — as rivers do. Under the logs, the body of the young Canadian moved with the river, which jostled him to and fro — to and fro. If, at this moment in time Twisted River also appeared restless, even impatient, maybe the river itself wanted the boy's body to move on, too, move on, too.

He was one of those people things came easily to, but he did little to demonstrate that he deserved to be gifted.