[Elizabeth Soto, Associate Editor: There is a disturbing myth about adulthood, the way that life’s meaning will knit itself together and bring itself to the forefront of our minds when we reach it. Angel reminds us that there is no easy answer, that pain will continue to find us, follow us, embrace us like an old friend even until the end.]

No

-body

told me

growing older

would require

so much

armor.