Falling into fate

"I|́|m not the same person I was when you last saw me. I|́|ve seen my first dead body |́| scads of them, in fact. You can|́|t gaze at a corpse, or at the faces of the bereaved, without feeling like your own problems don|́|t matter all that much. Dang |́| I got a bad grade on my paper. How tragic! Oh no! Melissa|́|s eyes glazed over when I started talking to her. It|́|s the end of the world! I also narrowly escaped getting hacked to death by a lar...