Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock

Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock

<i>In addition to the P-38, there are four gifts, one for each of my friends. I want to say good-bye to them properly. I want to give them each something to remember me by. To let them know I really cared about them and I'm sorry I couldn't be more than I was--that I couldn't stick around--and that what's going to happen today isn't their fault.</i><div><i><br /></i></div><div>Today is Leonard Peacock's birthday. It is also the day he will kill his former best friend, and then himself, with his grandfather's P-38 pistol.</div><div><br /></div><div>Maybe one day he'll believe that being different is okay, important even. </div><div><br /></div><div>But not today.</div><div><br /></div><div>The <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>The Silver Linings Playbook</i>, Matthew Quick, brings an unflinchingly eye to the impossible choices we deal with every day--and the light in us all that never goes out.</div>