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PART ONE

THE SORRY BUSINESS

What you seek, you shall never find.

For when the Gods made man,

They kept immortality for themselves.

Fill your belly.

Day and night make merry,

Let Days be full of joy.

Love the child that holds your hand.

Let your wife delight in your embrace.

For these alone are the concerns of man.

—The Epic of Gilgamesh

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BECAUSE I COULD NOT STOP FOR DEATH—HE KINDLY STOPPED FOR ME—

Charlie Asher walked the earth like an ant walks on the surface of water, as if the slightest misstep might
send him plummeting through the surface to be sucked to the depths below. Blessed with the Beta Male
imagination, he spent much of his life squinting into the future so he might spot ways in which the world
was conspiring to kill him—him; his wife, Rachel; and now, newborn Sophie. But despite his attention,