Congratulations HALLIEBETH87 !!!!

@Sunflower123 Happy Birthday - I'm 54 so we are around the same age. Sorry you have sadness over the adoption. Sometimes I think about who I am -- there's so much I long to do over differently yet all my failures have, I think, made me a better person and a better fiction writer. All have at least contributed to who I am. I'm probably not saying this well but check out Ryan Holiday on YouTube. He's a proponent of the ancient philosophy of Stoicism (which is not what it sounds like - the word has taken on a different meaning in the modern world).