Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.
There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat...
I wanted to end my life so bad and was in my car ready to go down that ramp...
We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs or a bee makes honey or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.