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Sophie’s Google searches suggest that she was obsessed with autokabalesis, which means jumping off a high place. Autodefenestration, jumping out a window, is a subset of autokabalesis, I guess, but that’s not what she wanted to do. My daughter wanted a bridge, or a mountain. Which is weird. She climbed Mount Kilimanjaro just months before as part of what she called a “microretirement” from her job as a public health policy analyst, her joy at reaching the summit absolutely palpable in the photos. There are crooked wooden signs at Uhuru Peak that say “Africa’s highest point” and “World’s highest free-standing mountain” and one underneath that says something about it being one of the world’s largest volcanoes, but I can’t read the whole sign because in every picture radiantly smiling faces in mirrored sunglasses obscure the words. In her pack, she brought rubber baby hands to take to the summit for those photos. It was a signature of sorts, these hollowed rubber mini hands, showing up in

Sophie’s Google searches suggest that she was obsessed with autokabalesis, which means jumping off a high place. Autodefenestration, jumping out a window, is a subset of autokabalesis, I guess, but that’s not what she wanted to do. My daughter wanted a bridge, or a mountain. Which is weird. She climbed Mount Kilimanjaro just months before as part of what she called a “microretirement” from her job as a public health policy analyst, her joy at reaching the summit absolutely palpable in the photos. There are crooked wooden signs at Uhuru Peak that say “Africa’s highest point” and “World’s highes