Looking back at that first night, wiser now (I guess) than I was then, I should have said to Dana, “Turn back – let’s forget about the whole thing. Because if we don’t, terrible things will happen. To you especially.”
This is what they call the wisdom of hindsight. We can construct whole fantasy worlds around how things might have been ... if somehow we had made that decision instead of this decision. Dana would still be with us, and overall there would have been less fear, fuss and collateral damage. Although Dad and I have never had it all that easy, my life would still be going along in a more or less predictable way.
Or everything might be changed, changed horribly, beyond recognition, and we would all be, if not dead, then thoroughly shafted, and this delicate endangered world that
