As If Stressing the Unexpected Discovery

"Erin said she felt better than when she'd been paranoid, 

but seemed reluctant to reciprocate Paul's enthusiasm when, 

with child-like sensation of wanting to be encouraged to believe a fantasy, 

or that an aberration was the norm, 

he said, for the third time since getting on the plane, 

as if stressing the unexpected discovery of something worth living for, 

in an existence in which most things were endured, not enjoyed."