I had a child and then I didn’t. That was their power, their strength. I didn’t just lose the baby, he was gone.

It’s not the silence that gets you—despite the dire warnings in the training sims. After a few weeks the silence becomes an ocean, a universe, and it’s all yours. You float within it, your lungs fill with it, it becomes you. Yes, you control the silence.

The problem is the noise.

There’s no business like vote business.

From the inside is the only way.