Hurt Locker

By analogy from snot locker (military terminology for the nose), the heart is a person's hurt locker. It's the place where things that happen stay with us. Luckily, we keep joy in same place.

And what about Sgt James in the movie? Well, he's what's right about humans in a place that's all wrong. "I'm not here to fill his shoes," he says, "I'm just gonna do my best." To paraphrase Jules Winnfield: Check out the big heart in Will. ...even if there was only one thing he was still able to love.

As soon as she returned to her grave, Emily Gibbs placed her twelfth birthday forever next to Geoge Webb in the hurt locker of her heart.

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