Sometimes I think the greatest talent of all is perseverance. - Mitch Albom

Instead, he would make death his final project, the center point of his days. Since everyone was going to die, he could be of great value, right? He could be research. A human textbook. Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me.

"You need someone to probe you in that direction. It won't just happen automatically."
I knew what he was saying. We all need teachers in our lives.

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped.Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers.