Sometimes:

A question is stolen.

Certain birds fly in storms

Some bites don’t pierce or break skin

A loss of a member is not always tragic

An ending is a footnote depending on time (as a system, value and or institution)

Perfection is in how much damage can be endured without dysfunction

Expectations are met and disliked as if introducing family to a new partner

Family can be a terribly difficult apparatus to define

Contributions from science may negate past victories

In the last minutes we might misremember