The Age of Miracles

by Karen Thompson Walker

And who knows how fast a second-guess can travel? Who has ever measured the exact speed of regret?

How much sweeter life would be if it all happened in reverse, if, after decades of disappointments, you finally arrived at an age when you had conceded nothing, when everything was possible.

It was a rough crossing, the one from childhood to the next life. And as with any other harsh journey, not everything survived.