“Mistakes belong in the past, young lady,” he said. “Every tomorrow is a blank slate and a chance to start again, so don’t cheat yourself by believing that you’re stuck.” “I feel stuck.” “But you’re not. People always think they have to stick with the life they chose, but that’s nonsense. A life is long, and it happens in chapters. My Margaret and I didn’t buy this farm until we were in our mid-thirties. Before that, we felt trapped in a life of barely getting by and working jobs we hated. We dreamed of having our own farm filled with our own animals, but we always convinced ourselves we were
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