“Okay,” she said, suddenly blurting it out. “I don’t know how you worked it out, but…” “I didn’t work it out, as you put it. I just listened to what you were saying.” “What I lost, I think, was a whole other life.” “Everybody does that. Every moment of every day. Every single decision we make, every breath we draw, opens some doors and closes many others. Most of them we don’t notice. Some we do. Sounds like you noticed one.”
