browngirl

This is painful on so very many levels. McCoy's own acknowledgement of his own hypocrisy, Jim's outburst that at least it's worked for six months. The alternate ending was just bleak and bitter. Every bit of promise crushed and gone.

I've lives in areas that had a lot of runaway kids, skimpily dressed kids who'd turn up all too soon pale in hospital rooms or paler in the morgue. Yeah, that's about right. I wish they'd all gotten the non-tragic ending, but...