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Congrats on the baby! or something, keep it sweet and positive.
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Whitman claims that "All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, / And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier." In other words, life continues and goes on in ways that we do not, and perhaps cannot, expect, and nothing ever truly disappears.
Well is he in the book "No more deaf dogs"? If so, then yes..
Usually the exposition is where you meet the character and get introduced to the problem.