Status Updates From The Clock Winder

Isn't it amazing how hard people work to raise their children?
Human beings are born so helpless, and stay helpless so long. For every grownup you see, you know there must have been at least one person who had the patience to lug them around, and feed them, and walk them nights and keep them out of danger for years and years, without a break.

Nights when you were in bed, clean from your baths, I felt such - oh, remorse. Regret. I thought back over every cross word. Now it's all like one long night, regret for anything I might have done but no fresh faces to start in new upon in the morning. Here I am alone, just aching for you, and still I don't know what it was I did.

Just loved you and raised you, the best we knew how, Mrs Emerson said. 'Made mistakes, but none of them on purpose. What else did you want? I go over and over it all, in my mind. Was it something I did? Something I didn't do?