Things in Nature Merely Grow

It was the seventh day after James’s death, and the New Jersey Transit detective was visiting a second time to return James’s backpack, just as the Amtrak detective had come back to return Vincent’s phone. And yet these two clichés speak an irrefutable truth. Too often their anger—a feeling, a reaction, an interpretation—is presented as fact, or, worse, truth. He sighed, and agreed to “give life another chance.” In the end, there are only a limited number of times that one can give something or someone another chance.