(I???m tempted, here, to make a joke about how maybe my over-bursting heart was kind of an air-bag against all the badness of the car accident, which happened the day after I received word of the auction, but then I???d have to account for the decidedly non-bouncy chest that contains the bursty heart, and the joke sort of starts to fall flat ??? no pun intended ??? because I got too literal which