In just a few words, this fifty-two-year-old woman from Virginia pulls off a stunning feat of cerebral agility. Discontent with the present, she mentally returns to the past—decades earlier, when she was a young woman contemplating her educational and professional path. Once there, she negates what really happened—giving in to her father’s wishes. And she substitutes an alternative: she enrolls in the graduate program she prefers. Then she hops back in her time machine and hurtles forward. But because she’s reconfigured the past, the present she encounters when she arrives is vastly different
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