(86) after attending to sick Sohn - "Late that night, I realized I had just celebrated my thirtieth birthday."
(86) "Following the impulse to which humans in pain and grief are prone, we decided to try anything."
(86-7) Sohn's lung cancer diagnosis - Ward goes right into the sorcery pursued by the family but skips over her feelings about her friend given a year to live - leaving this out makes it seem like it didn't happen - that she didn't feel - which makes this less a personal story
(89-90) goes over problems with the census, name changes, etc.
(91) since writers set to writing after the fact, they lose many of the genuine, particular feelings and must rely on general feelings or a distant version of a particularly strong emotion - Ward reprints letters which still capture the genuine feeling - "Remind them that formulas and computer programs look very different when your feet have turned permanently auburn and you are washing clothes on a rock."
(92) "My capacity for denial is immense, and no one had ever spoken to me like this." - on Sohn's deathbed, she feels now though I chided her for not doing it earlier
(91-2) beautifully crafted scene - Sohn taken up the mountain - though a space break would have been fitting
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