Then She Was Gone

by Lisa Jewell

It was not the sort of home she’d ever envisaged for herself, but it was easy and it was safe.

Did you know that the parts of the brain involved in decision-making aren’t fully developed until you’re twenty-five years old?”

I remember being twenty-one and thinking that my personality was a solid thing, that me was set in stone, that I would always feel what I felt and believe what I believed. But now I know that me is fluid and shape-changing.