"Hey, you wanna know what I do when I have a really bad, awful, terrible day?"

"What?"

"I imagine my great-great-great granddaughter in the future, talking to her class about me. She's poised, and funny, and tells people about me and how everything worked out in the end. And when I think about that, I think about how everything's going to work out, because how else could she tell people?"

" But it's... fake. "

" Yeah, well, it makes me feel better. "