"Our skin is very thin. It doesn't take much for us to jump off a ledge or to kill one another. It can happen very, very quickly."

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Maybe this is not a come-down-from-the-ledge story. But I tell it with the thought that the woman on the ledge will ask herself a question, the question that occurred to that man in Bogota. He wondered how we know that what happens to us isn't good?

— Amy Hempel