Bold. I have other burdens. Though you are a burden in the sense you insist on rebuilding your house close to the river. Maybe if you permitted yourself to move closer to others, you would find greater safety.

Your family would be away for the rest of the year? What would you do when they returned?

And: yes and no. I don’t think anyone was close to him. In terms of personality and behavior we are actually very similar. Maybe identical. And because of that, I understood him, and so was probably closer to him than most. We did not talk much but neither of us felt as though we needed to.