Ashley

“I won’t lie.  Looking back is difficult—my memories are tinged with hollowness and shame.   Still, I wasn’t suicidal.   I mean, sure.  This last time, I did drink the poison—and maybe this sounds weird, but it just never occurred to me that I would really die from it.   And I didn’t.   Not technically.  But psychiatry, like alchemy, is a very inexact science.   You’d think psychiatrists of all people would have a sense of humor about an occasional lapse in judgment like taking a few drops of poison. They don’t. (Having just reread this note, I’m fairly certain the words are not exactly coming out the”
― W.C. Anderson, Beloved Evangeline