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25 She Keeps Her Heart in a jar the way they do in the Biology building. That way, whoever wants to break it has to break the jar first. Most of the time she doesn’t need it with her anyway. Most of the time she feels lighter without it. When she was a girl, she had a red wagon. Her heart’s like that, something she can pull with a handle, but hard to steer if it gets going downhill. In school, she liked dissection, frogs, fetal pigs. So she’s given her heart to science— and when she gets lonely, she goes and folds her hands around the jar. ...

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