The other reason was that Waldo had backhanded her across the mouth after she refused to give him beso negro.

[…] we children had a platform—the “house in the coon tree," we called it—to which we ascended by the grapevine and on which we often sat reading books or playing and in season drinking (without ice, of course) pomegranateade.

Autoassassinophilia (arousal from putting oneself in a position to be killed) and symphorophilia (arousal by accidents or catastrophes) are paraphilias of the sacrificial type.

Millions of big bangs may be happening as we speak.