Cleo McDougal Regrets Nothing

by Allison Winn Scotch

People should be allowed their scars.

How looking back started to make you question the way forward.

“The right thing to do is often not the most prudent thing to do,”

Maybe depending on one person leads to depending on other people, and then you don’t wind up making self-defeating decisions because you are lonely. Regret.)

he made her think that she was more special with him than without him. So many years later, Cleo hated this last thing the most: that she could allow a man to convince her that somehow she was more valuable, more coveted, more exceptional because he had chosen her.

Two things can be true at once.”