C105 What Is Death

I really didn't want to listen to the details of the abortion.

Every time she said a word, I felt pain, the pain of feeling the same way.

We lost touch for two or three years, and all I knew was that she was living well, that she had a rich and well-connected father who doted on her, and that she had a rich foreign husband, and that while we were all working hard at the bottom of our lives