I was maniacal about our safety....We let our 16

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I was maniacal about our safety....We let our 16 year old go fishing. One time. Outside. In the rain and wind. And he caught it. It spread through our house with a vengeance, despite my attempts to stop it.

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Very incisive and painfully true story, Diddy. Reminds me of Achilles, whose mother (as we know) dipped him in the River Styx, making him invulnerable except for the part of his heelt she held onto -- which was where the arrow struck. Another story about how life and death cannot be held at bay, and how we can't contain or even truly shape our own existences. There is no control.