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As he drives away from his house to go out for the night, Eggers can’t stop himself from playing out terrible scenarios in his head. This, he says, “happens every time” he leaves. Thinking about the worst-case scenario, he envisions extraordinarily vivid images. Worse, he begins to feel guilty about having left, thinking that it will be his fault if Toph dies. “I ignored the signals,” he thinks, convinced that he’ll somehow be the one to blame for his brother’s unlikely death.
This kind of thinking arises from Eggers’s past experiences with loss. Because he was exposed to death in…
