All these years she’d convinced herself that she was in control of her own life. Yet was she? She’d thought she’d find freedom once she left her parents’ home, but she’d been following the prescribed path of all the women before her. Steered by the same fears, confined by the same shame. Except she’d deluded herself into thinking that her life was somehow better than theirs. But it wasn’t, and why would it be? She didn’t deserve to be happy.
