Alex Michael

After all this, there's a chance that I will sometimes make bad calls. but I have learned from

bitter experience that it's better to occasionally make bad calls than to live in chronic fear and

anxiety of the

possibility

of making bad calls— while not making any good ones.

I can’t remember the dress she wore or what she had bought; I can’t remember what we did for the rest of that afternoon; I can’t re-create the exact timbre of her voice or the precise shapes of her features, the lines at the corners of her mouth or the name of her perfume. I only remember the way sunlight through the kitchen window glinted from her

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