Life isn`t a story, no matter what the Shavaktiin say. There`s no neat beginnings, no happy endings, because everything always keeps on going. That`s just life, girl. That`s all it is: life, and lives, and all of them lived overlapping. The beauty and curse of mortality is we only live once, in just one place and just one time; our lives don`t stop because important things are happening to other people, but their lives don`t stop for us, either. Right here and now, you`re home, and you have to deal with it. You have to keep going. OK?