People say friends don't destroy one another What do they know about friends? —"Game shows Touch Our Lives," The Mountain Goats

And after, when we went outside to look at her finished lantern from the road, I said I liked the way her light shone through the face that flickered in the dark. —"Jack O'Lantern," Katrina Vandenberg in Atlas

To Julie Strauss-Gabel, without whom none of this could have become real.

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