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Teen Girl Faces Time in the Sand … Excerpt: Chapter 1 … part 2
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Excerpt: Chapter One … part 2
Teen Girl and Grandma discuss time frames with pictures on the sand representing the Past, the Present and the Future with the crucial Me-Dot. A passing dragonfly represents the fragility of time. Whose fault is it?
What is time worth if you make bad choices and forfeit the future?
“Remember my one rule about living?” she asked quietly.
I forgot but knew I would hear again.
“Yes, you may think I am too old, too old-fashioned, not a modern bone in my fat body … but there are only 40 years between us. Certain truths are the same for your grandparents and you, like respect yourself, and everything else is forgotten.
You know my one rule for a long happy life is not to leave anything to chance. You need to grab all the good chances as soon as you can because you can’t control what Time holds in store for you. Nobody holds all the cards until the very end.
But with the cards you have now, you don’t play games. You know, in the game of Solitaire, you can have all 51 cards right…
