Lily
Silence brings with it a peculiar type of calm, but perhaps that is because it is so hard to attain. I have to block out not just the sounds outside my room but also the chatter inside my head, the voices that try to whisper to me about who I am, what I should or should not be feeling, what I did or did not do, and what went wrong. I occasionally try to reach the blissful tranquilly of stillness while I am up late at night, but the continuous chattering in my head usually wrecks it for me. It was wise of you to save him. I am curious as to whether Landon ever attained that quiet and if so, why he did it. Perhaps he heard nothing at all and decided it was time to call it quits.
"How do I appear?" Before we left for college, Esther used to drive an old pickup, and in the rearview mirr
