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SIX YEARS LATER Karen knew exactly how it would turn out. This time it would not be another shit show. She knew what she was doing, and she was doing it right. Her plan was perfection. The detail meticulous. Failures of the past, all those unmet expectations? She shook her head. Nope, none of the above. She'd once had someone lecture her on the difference between hope and expectation, how the first was life-affirming and the other only a dreary path to disappointment and resentments. It didn't stick. She still got all hyped about coming ev...
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