So then what do we do? We make another choice, and another. I’ve made some bad choices in my life, but the worst one I ever made was not making one at all, spending years just going through the motions of life, paralyzed by pain, sadness, grief, and loss. Basically, I wasn’t living at all—just stuck in the mud. Looking back, it all makes me smile now. I chose to walk in the mud in plastic stilettos, and well, my life changed that Halloween night—just as it had before. That seemingly irrelevant decision—to walk, to move, to go forward—became more important than what car to buy, what college I
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