if you can watch someone elses life and be drawn into it , you can escape your own for a time . the woman squirmed a little , and so did roger . i could n't focus on what had happened-i was thinking about what would have to happen next . my mother 's family had always been distant too . he went and got a folding ladder from the corner of the building and came back , opening it out near the corner of the pipes . it was as if they just wanted your life . 