Three men with regrets that span a wide swath of territory—an Australian marriage, a Canadian childhood, a California election. But how different, really, are they? All involve a moral breach. At a moment in their lives now stamped in memory, all three faced a choice: Honor their principles or betray them? And at that moment, all three chose wrongly. On the surface, their regrets poke through different patches of life’s landscape. Below the surface, they grow from common roots.

