Be there for Franny and Kate. Which would be the best-case scenario. Win-win all around. And I know—maybe Kate would understand if I told her I couldn’t make it, that I already had noncancelable plans. It’s just that, well, this second time around—which is still hard to comprehend, that I have a second shot—I don’t want to waste a fraction of a second. Because if there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that nothing’s promised. That you have to treat second chances like an endangered species.
