They Could Not Truly Look Dead, Because

Stories Are The Things That Allow Us To Persuade Each Other That We're Human.

There Are So Many Fragile Things, After All. People Break So Easily, And So Do Dreams And Hearts.

I Don't Know Much More Than I Did When I Was Alive. Most Of The Stuff I Know Now That I Didn't Know Then I Can't Put Into Words.

We Have An Obligation To Read Aloud To Our Children. To Read Them Things They Enjoy. To Read To Them Stories We Are Already Tired Of. To Do The Voices, To Make It Interesting, And Not To Stop Reading To Them Just Because They Learn To Read To Themselves. Use Reading-aloud Time As Bonding Time, As Time When No Phones Are Being Checked, When The Distractions Of The World Are Put Aside.

Libraries Really Are The Gates To The Future.