Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I rarely talk to strangers, especially cabbies. I was exhausted after spending twelve hours at my mother's bedside, and I was trying to leave the hospital. I took my sadness and left a body. #2 When I returned home from the hospital, my brother and Ric greeted me with awkward man hugs and I love you's. I returned the hugs and the I love you's probably just as manly and awkwardly. #3 I thought about my mother, an artist, and how she would leave food out for the armadillos, hummingbirds that flew into her yard, and frogs that lived in her potted plants.