Entry 29: It's Kind of a Funny Story

"Here's the game: it's just questions.  I ask you a question, and you ask me a question...If you want to you can answer.  But no matter what, you have to end with another question."
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"I like talking to you.  It's like a math problem.  Do you like talking to me?"
"It's alright.  Do you like math?"
"I thought I did..."

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A fellow teenage patient pulls a conversation out of craig.  Her name is Noelle and she has self harm scars all over her face.  I marked the relation of conversation to math as i read this book the first time.  I can't quite tell why I did that.  Maybe it brought up a memory of conversation with someone.  I guess it makes me think of talking to someone in a completely different way than one is used to.  I find it really interesting when someone refuses to stick to the basic steps in a conversation because you have to think and speak differently to get them to reveal information that would otherwise be given up so easily.