-david valued things even things that had no worth / he was gentle that way hated to destroy anything kill anything i put out mousetraps once in our first apartment just after we 'd been married there were a lot of mice there i think there was a nest of them in the walls we were always finding them chewing through cereal boxes and wires and shoeboxes all that so i put out mousetraps of course i never even gave it a second thought i did n't tell david about it anyway we were just going to bed and we heard a snapping sound david asked me what it was and i said it was probably a mousetrap he went pale i asked him to go check he would n't move did n't speak i got up myself and went to look there was a dead mouse cute little thing white belly little nose little feet you know i got rid of it / david was crying he would n't speak to me for days he could n't bear to see it die like that it really affected him .