In addition to the P-38, there are four gifts, one for each of my friends. I want to say good-bye to them properly. I want to give them each something to remember me by. To let them know I really cared about them and Im sorry I couldnt be more than I was--that I couldnt stick around--and that whats going to happen today isnt their fault.Today is Leonard Peacocks birthday. It is also the day he will kill his former best friend, and then himself, with his grandfathers P-38 pistol.Maybe one day hell believe that being different is okay, important even. But not today.The New York Times bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook, Matthew Quick, brings an unflinchingly eye to the impossible choices we deal with every day--and the light in us all that never goes out.
