'when they can't get out of the banana hole'....J.D. Salinger's 'A Perfect Day for Bananafish'. With thoughts in mind of all the suicides we've heard about recently - teen suicides, suicides resulting from bullying and homophobia, military suicides, I've made this piece using the sto...ry of the suicide of perhaps my favorite literary character ever, my literary 'crush' if you will, Seymour Glass. I know all too well the despair and utter sense of hopelessness that leads to this act and understand completely why it happens - you truly don't at all know or believe that it will ever be better, that you will ever feel anything but pain, that you matter, or that your death will affect anyone. It is so, so sad when someone reaches that point. Here is to the prevention of further senseless deaths, and even more importantly perhaps, to the eradication of hate and bigotry. xo Cheryl