“ And that's like my world. Annie pointed up to the stars again.Inaccecible. ”
And what does helping someone really mean? Helping them to be like everyone else, or helping them to be themselves?
~ Nancy Garden
Have you ever felt really close to someone? So close that you can't understand why you and the other person have two separate bodies, two separate skins?
The 1st day, I stood in the kitchen leaning against the counter watching Annie feed the cats, and I knew I wanted to do that forever.
And Annie showed me how ailanthus trees grow under subway and sewer gratings, stretching toward the sun, making shelter in the summer, she said, laughing, for the small dragons that live under the streets.
