“The problem with endings in real life is they tend to be protracted dwindles, not a dynamic denouement … it’s people moving on and Christmas cards that quit showing up in your mail box … that’s how relationships end most of the time.
T.S. Eliot nailed it with the last stanza of The Hollow Men:
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.“
– Tom Lancaster Grimes,
President Plenipotentiary of the Worthless Bastards of America