A Second Chance To Get It Right
Imagine this: you're sixty years old, divorced, broke. You've squandered away being the husband and father you should've been to your wife and children in your quest for status among your architect peers.
Don't worry: that's all about to change. Unfortunate encounters with large trucks on the highway have a way of altering your plans, like jettisoning you back into the past to wake up next to a woman you dated in college. You're also about to realize she hasn't aged a day - and neither have you.
Thirty years stripped away, just like that. And as a bonus, you have a six-year-old son you have no recollection of. You also have a new home, a brand new career, new friends and family, and skills you never had in your old life. There's nothing like straddling two distinct lives, trying to figure out how you know some things and yet not others. If only you could remember your past in this new world.
But what do people really know about you that you don't know about yourself? What kind of person are you? What secrets have you kept from those you love in this life? Is this your chance to redeem yourself, or are you fated to repeat the life you left behind and end up alone again?
Better figure it out, and quick.
Unfold
The restaurant is packed, but the receptionist finds us a booth near the back next to a window. Ted orders an appetizer of Buffalo wings to start with a couple craft beers for the two of us. I take a gulp, expecting to savor the nutty taste of a beverage I loved before the accident, only to find the taste not to my liking. Back in my other life ……
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