The Last List of Mabel Beaumont

by Laura Pearson

You should try everything. You won’t regret

there. That’s when I start to weep again. It’s self-indulgent and I don’t care. The price of living a long life, I think, is the sheer weight of the losses you have to suffer.

think we’re all grieving for something. Our childhoods or a relationship or a dream.’

I might learn something. And that’s a privilege, at my age. To change something, or learn something. To keep growing.