With or Without You

by Shari Low

Perhaps our lives and loves are predetermined, our paths mapped out, and it doesn’t matter what twists and turns we take on the road, we still end up exactly where we’re meant to be.

Oh, and I’d faced the toughest challenge of all, the family equivalent of tossing an emotional grenade into a volatile situation and then feeling the full effects of the world-ending turbo-blast. Yep, I’d told my mother.