Rori Acher is eighteen years old and dying. Any licensed medical professional would pronounce her perfectly healthy. But there are many ways to be dying that are not physical.
Rori knows exactly what her future will be and this is why she is dying. Adults tell teenagers to plan out their lives. This is in fact the worst advice you can give a teenager. It takes the mystery out of life.
Humans aren't supposed to have their weeks and months and years and lives planned out for them. They aren't supposed to follow the ringing of a small metal and glass rectangle for when they should wake up, get to work, pay the bills, get groceries, see other humans.
Rori is dying because she is trying desperately to be an adult at eighteen.
The problem?
She feels everything nearly all the time, and the minds of adults just can't cope with that. Why else do you think we age to quickly and die so slowly? Everything inside us simply doesn't fit. We weren't meant to carry it all, at least not carry it alone.
Especially when you are eighteen and feel everything.
This is why the incredibly rich, in their fancy apartments and expensive clothes, and first class seating are in incredible pain. You simply cannot carry a life by yourself...especially if it is your own.
It's just we've forgotten that uncomfortably close quarters and awkward conversations will save us in the end. If we have them. If we are willing to see each other.
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