And then, as always, there is your family (and some good friends too). Your arms wrap around them, and you, not wishing to make any of them feel less important than the others, look to them all in alphabetical order: Clarissa, Dad, Emma, Farrah, Ferdinand, Garth, Jason, Kane, Matt, Mom, Nicholas, Quinn, Red, Sara, and Sebastian. And with them in your heart, you remember that, yes, it was all worth it. Every day of it. Today, tomorrow, or the next—your answer is the same. You would do it all again.
