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Two women and a puzzle
Just when things were going well in her life, Sheila hit a rough patch head on. Every part of her life situation went south in a very abrupt manner. It seemed as though she had made a wrong turn into a very different world. And she could not figure out what wrong turn she made nor when she made it.
She searched the memory banks in her noggin for that moment when everything changed but she could not find it. Of course she knew that she could not go back in time to reverse that turn but she wanted to know what decision she had made that sent everything spiraling so that she could learn from it and avoid making similar mistakes in the future.
Sheila was a very analytical thinker. That is how she was raised. That is why she had gone so far in her career and why she was so successful in all aspects of her life. It was quite rare that she could not figure something out. But now she was stumped.
“I just don’t know what I did to screw everything up,” she said to Julia, her long-time friend. They had met for lunch at a local cafe. It was the first time they had gotten together in months.
“Sheila, I don’t think I’ve ever seen you so distraught. You’ve always been my inspirational super hero. You’ve always been twenty times more successful than everyone else I know combined. I’m just not sure…
