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Jeg tenkte at fanatikere alltid vil ha et publikum, og det eneste en kunne håpe å påvirke, var størrelsen på tilhengermassen.

Det er kyssingen som tar knekken på meg hver jævla gang, sa Sabrina. Akkurat når det begynner å bli godt, løsner tennene i overkjeven.

Keep passing the open windows

"When someone's really fucked up", Susie confides to me, "I send them down to the docks to see the blind man and Seeing Eye Dog Number Four. Whatever he tells them must be working", Susie concludes. "At least, so far, nobody's jumped off".

"Keep passing the open windows, my dear", my father tells just about anyone. "That's the important thing, dear", he adds.

Add doom to the list, then. Especially in families, doom is `altogether common.´ Sorrow floats; love, too; and - in the long run - doom. It floats, too.

So we dream on. Thus we invent our lives. We give ourselves a sainted mother, we make our father a hero; and someone’s older brother and someone’s older sister – they become our heroes too. We invent what we love and what we fear. There is always a brave lost brother – and a little lost sister, too. We dream on and on: the best hotel, the perfect family, the resort life. And our dreams escape us almost as vividly as we can imagine them… That’s what happens, like it or not. And because that’s what happens, this is what we need: we need a good, smart bear… Coach Bob knew it all along: you’ve got to get obsessed and stay obsessed. You have to keep passing the open windows.