Later same day:
Regarding regrets: I can most honestly say that I have so few. The risks I've taken in the past 3 or 4 years have all be worth the price paid. And even now, there are a lot of sore spots in my life, but I wouldn't have changed one thing. And to this day, I make choices that I know make the healing harder on myself. But I know that for the most part, I have made the right choices. I have failed, I have triumphed (rarely, but it happens) but the getting there has been the real ride...
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And now I'm glad I didn't know
The way it all would end
the way it all would go
Our lives are better left to chance
I could have missed the pain
But I'dve had to miss the dance
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