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Marg placed a hand on hers. “Sooner or later it’s going to sneak up on you, and you need to be ready.”

Alex didn’t draw her hand away, as was her first inclination. She didn’t want to hurt her mother’s feelings.

“Mother, I’m perfectly happy with my life. I’m not interested in long-term.”

“You see, that’s my point. You should be,” Marg countered. “You think I couldn’t get a job. You think I couldn’t get a place if I didn’t have this one. Well, you’re wrong. I could make it on my own. I might fall down now and then, but there’s nothing wrong with that.”

Alex wasn’t sure where she was going with all this.

“It’s okay to fail every so often. Life isn’t supposed to be perfect. Living life is about taking risks, about allowing yourself to be vulnerable at times,” Marg insisted. “You need to fall. Otherwise you’re never going to know just how magical life is.”