we are pretending that we’re going back to normal living.  Tonight we meet with Ezi’s extended family – kids and adults alike – and nothing much has changed. 

Are we kidding?  Most of us haven’t spoken in over a year, and everyone has gone through incredible changes – except those who really haven’t noticed what they’ve been up to and how it’s different.  Some of us are twice the size – children grown, adults fattened up, elders more frail.  Some of us have become a bit demented, others have nothing to say because nothing has happened to them.  

And none of us will mention the fact that we are in terror that the plague may return before or after we are nuked.

All this makes us psychologically different