One story doesn’t define me. One story doesn’t define you. I’m going to write a dozen more at least, and they’ll be stories about raising teens and getting older. There will be stories about New York, and wherever life leads after that. About half the things I said I’d never do are now things I’ve done, so I’m done making predictions. What I see down the road—possibility, hope, beauty. I don’t know any more than that. Loss, I’m sure. Struggle. But I’m not afraid of those things the way I was before. I have a lot more close-up experience with them, and we get through. That’s what I know—we get
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