“Eddy needed so much of everything. So much air for all their lungs. So much water, and even though not all their mouths wanted food, the ones that did needed so much. And no wonder. They had to keep all those legs moving. And just think of the shoes. A whole department store full of clothes, and so much time to make them fit their body, to sew new holes and close old ones. So much time to keep their body clean. So many haircuts, Mom sweeping the fallen locks into corn-colored mounds on the kitchen floor. Think of all the blood their body needed just to keep them going, how much ran through their veins. The same blood as mine, only so much more. Think of the room they needed. The house grew right along with them. They needed so much air, water, space, time, love.”