Patrick Anderson Jr.

Sean looks up at her, and he wants to explain it all to her. Explain what it__ like to be rubbed so raw, to have your emotional threshold exceeded day after day, your psyche beaten so completely that you have no choice but to turn inward, shunning any and everything that__ ever brought you comfort. He wants to explain that__p until the past month or so__e__ been existing in a black hole, a mental abyss that he only recently realized he put himself in.But watching Lauren__ face__he concern in her expression, so pure and complete, considering he__ technically still a complete stranger__e realizes he doesn__ have to explain anything. She knows what it__ like. Everybody does.

For just a second, Lauren wonders if she__ going insane. But insane people don__ think they__e insane, everybody knows that. But...since that fact of insanity is common knowledge, doesn__ that mean an insane person could use it to convince themselves they__e not actually insane? Wouldn__ that make them even more insane?

Lauren realizes right then that the prospect of being single__f recent events leading to a divorce and her being a single mother with child support checks and the like__cares her to death. Dating itself is such a frightening, vulnerable time period, no matter what the circumstances. It sucks, really. She doesn__ want to go through all that again.