getting-by

Lewis exasperated her, always talking about life before the Plague and how it would be if everything was different. He was a dreamer. __t would be nice, but it__ not gonna happen, Lewis. You shouldn__ spout off talk like that, giving false hope to people. It__ be better if they focused on surviving. It__ more important than some silly dream._ __ut Alice, dreams are how people get by in a place like this,_ Lewis countered. His freckles faded with his smile. __e gotta find somethin_ to hold onto, else we__l all go mad.

Today is just another day of trying to get by without you.

I can remember whendelusions of grandeur entailed wanting tobe a rock star, movie star,a millionaire; to make itas a writer__ow it seems that it__to want to earn adecent living