Sadly, she was consumed, fated long before I ever met her, soaked to her precious core with cigarettes, cheap wine and strong tranquilizers, fighting the demons that clawed at her soul whenever she tried living and loving free of the chemicals. Her demons I would never want to share, although I was all too eager to share her bed, share her days without contributing what she needed, and so she continued to drink and laugh with that sad spirit the laugh of the condemned, until she finally drifted from life into death and I hope, no, I pray into the peace she had desperately sought while confronting her living wasteland.