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Two chapters in and have cried twice. A good start.

“We’re not allowed to die for our children, the universe won’t let us, because then there wouldn’t be any mothers left.”

“Babies teach us not to be scared of death. That’s how we realize we can’t wish for eternal life. Because if no one died, we would have to ban new people from being born. And when the playgrounds are empty, when the last pair of rain boots has been grown out of, when the last puddle has been jumped in . . . What would we want eternity for them, Ted?”