Ilsa J. Bick - Drowning Instinct (2012)

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She's got the kind of ethereal, unselfconscious beauty some young girls possess that breaks your heart. Or theirs.

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There are those individuals who die for a cause, and we say they have made the ultimate sacrifice. We call them martyrs, and we never doubt their sincerity. Yet many others search their entire lives for something—or someone—worth dying for and this is very different. These are the lonely and the desperate, fearful that their lives have no meaning. They yearn for the bullet, if only someone else will pull the trigger.

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Everybody breaks sooner or later, Bob. Anyone can drown. Sometimes you see it. Most often, you don't because the body protects and the skin hides, so drowning doesn't look like drowning and some people scar so nicely. Take it from an expert.

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They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning.

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So I need the story, Jenna. I need the truth. Right, like the two are the same thing.

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