She looks at me, her eyes shining. “What if we try our best and fail anyway?” As her words stretch out before me, I think about myself, about everything that’s happened. “What then? Should we feel bad about ourselves? Why not just accept that we don’t know? Because if you accept that, my dear girl, it will give you such immense freedom. It will allow you to change your mind, to take a different path, to grab opportunities that come your way that you might never have thought of . . . to be impulsive instead of being stuck, to stop feeling guilty.” Cricket looks at me, her face imploring. “To
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