closed windows
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It can be a heady thing, thinking of all the other potential lives that lie just outside your own. We wonder what would have become of us if we had said no, or yes, or jumped instead of retreated. We try to calm our restless hearts by making our gratitude sing more loudly than our regret and usually it works. But, no matter what we do, the tiniest desire to escape is always there, always fermenting.