i struggled to lift myself once more . she made her way up the faint path and he followed , puffing in the high mountain air . away from the monster that still urged me to rip him apart . but whoever ran him over is still out there . '' `` yeah , but without an x-ray , we wo n't really know . not that she feared she 'd ... gone too far-as in all the way , too far . i never expected that , at least not until we were about eighty years old . 