... book (excluding the Appendix) is a work of fiction. Names, characters and events are a product of the author’s imagination and any similarity to actu... ...hor’s imagination and any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or events, is entirely coincidental and not intended by the author. The inform... ... she didn’t have to go to school anymore, paralyzed by sorrow and despair. Eventually the tears stopped, as they always did. The sound of laughter dri... ...the oceanic size of the water, and by the thousands of islands dotting the horizon. “Well, they don’t call it the thirty thousand islands for nothing!... ...re of all his patients, he was usually able to empty his mind of the day’s events as he headed home. He knew it was because of the daughter, Jana. Her... ..., and that she would be breaking some law of nature if she killed herself? Eventually she got out of bed and went down the hall to the lounge. She sat...