Serious Monologue

Question 1

She had

Answer 1

chronic depression, ever since she was twelve.

Question 2

Her father

Answer 2

had depression, too. And her sister. And I was on antidepressants for a while when I was her age.

Question 3

She was

Answer 3

very high-functioning. She went years without any real incidents.

Question 4

She had

Answer 4

control of it when she was in high school. And then, all of a sudden, things just…fell apart. She…spiraled.

Question 5

I asked her

Answer 5

to move back home, but she said no, over and over again. She was hospitalized last summer. But I really thought she’d get past it.

Question 6

I thought,

Answer 6

“It’s just a matter of time before she finds the right medicine, or the right therapist, …and things will go back to normal.”

Question 7

That day,

Answer 7

we’d made plans to have breakfast.

Question 8

I called her,

Answer 8

but she didn’t answer her phone.

Question 9

I thought

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she’d turned it off and slept late, so I went to her apartment and knocked on her door. It wasn’t locked.

Question 10

I went in,

Answer 10

and…I found her lying on the floor in the kitchen…

Question 11

Why didn’t she come to me?

Answer 11

I would have done anything for her. Anything. Didn’t she know that?