“We didn’t find him for three days because we didn’t realize he was missing. That’s the saddest part of this story. He’d hanged himself from a tree, one of several that grew in a small sliver of land between my parents’ house and the neighbors’, out by a swing set untouched for years. He timbered over like a sapling when my father cut him down, his body gone stiff.”
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“What seems ordinary to you may be another’s dream—cherish each day with gratitude.”
“I think it started when Mercado told us we might run into a dead body.”
“Do not count a human dead until you've seen his body. And even then you can make a mistake.”
“Well, too bad. I found a dead body and it won't stay fresh for long. See you soon!”
“Madame Chalamet is a professional. I let her talk with my dead bodies all the time.”