"I admire those who pass out"

Edwin Leap: “In some ways, I wish I had the skill. It must be liberating to succumb to the stress, to fall to the ground, give up the ghost. I’ve spent my life trying hard to seem strong and competent. The people who raised me, the wife I married, her family, our children, my role models, all are people who believe in seeing it through. We have not, to my knowledge, had anyone pass out among the lot of us. But I can’t help but be intrigued.”