The way to make the pain go away was to put your mind somewhere else. You let your mind leave and float above you, where it could watch you.

She used to suffer these intense bouts of homesickness in her own bedroom. When she was very small, she would wake up tearing at her bedspread and shrieking, “I wanna go home! I wanna go home!” Which was distressing to all of us, of course, because she was home.