He took comfort knowing that some conditions—mostly cerebral, like Multiple Systems Atrophy, Alzheimer’s, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, the list went on—were untraceable until death.

The next morning, they discovered the letters and realized that the person who had always asked if everyone else was okay had been silently begging someone to ask him the same.

When he learned the picture belonged to a stranger, he threw it away, then spent the night wishing he could throw away his feelings just as easily.

"Of course she can" It said in a jaunty voice, and printed out a picture of a smiling white child who holding out a glass of water

Once the count reaches the limit, they've lost the ability to believe in themselves.

It bothered me, but asking for my money was too dangerous. They mocked me for knowing how to fix it two years later.