Status Updates From A Year of Marvellous Ways

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She tried to shove Doubt aside but Doubt laughed because you can't shove Doubt. It gives way a little because that's what Doubt does. But it waits. Waits like a germ for the perfect conditions. Then it spreads. Then it suffocates.

I too understand the madness that ensues when someone you love dies. But I kept mine clothed. Respectable. I kept mine hidden so as not to frighten people. But it was there, behind my job, behind my eyes. My grief – because I was respectable – was not misinterpreted. I too went mad, Mr. Drake. But I still polished my shoes.