The Charismatic Charlie Wade

Deana laughed, “Where was your dream?”

Zara smiled and said: “In my dream, it seemed to be by the river where I liked to fly kites when I was a kid.”

Zara continued, “It was a strange dream, it seemed like the kind I had as a little girl, but I really didn’t mind it.”

Deana nodded: “What’s weird about this is that as the dreamer, you’re heavily invested in these kinds of violent dreams, but you feel absurd when you wake up.”

She then sighed softly, “Hey…in my life, I don’t know how many ridiculous and absurd dreams I’ve had.

I dreamt that the dead were still alive, and that my life was vastly different… ”

Zara looked at Deana and saw the regret that could never be erased on her face.

She couldn’t help asking, “Mom, do you regret marrying my dad?”

Deana was astonished, but smiled bitterly and said, “If you’d asked me when I was your age, knowing that marrying the man I did would be accompanied by a lifelong unwillingness, then no, I wouldn’t marry him.

But who I was then, and who I am are not the same person.

my eldest daughter asks me if I

her eyes rimmed in red, she understood the

regrettable; because of herself and her brother, her mother

regret was that her

said, “Mom…thank

“Silly girl, what are you thanking

eyes, and said

your other half in the future, don’t

men in the world: Tall and short, fat and skinny, black and

matter, only finding the right one

future you must choose the

and said earnestly:

moment, the doorbell

said, “It should be the guard coming

I’ll get the door.”

opening it with the expectation that