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5 Life Lessons Told Over 5 Glasses of Wine from a 99-Year Old Filled With Regret
“I wish I was more willing to forgive.”
“There was blood everywhere. But wait, let me backtrack.”
“This piercing voice was screaming so loudly that I could hear her from the second floor. She lives on the fourth. I’m a nurse, so when I hear somebody screeching, “Heeeeelp! Heeeeelp!” I spring into action. I jolted out of my apartment and checked all the rooms on my floor. Then I sprinted up the stairs to the third floor. The screaming wasn’t coming from there either.
I raced up to the fourth floor, and I heard it loud and clear. “Help! Help me right now!” I crept into apartment 4F and there was Marcy. Laying on the floor. Completely undressed. In a pool of blood. There was blood everywhere.”
I caught up with my friend Lara not too long ago, and she showed up fully exasperated. She arrived at the gym (we were doing a workout together) already sweating, and even before giving me a hug, she held her pointer finger up and then keeled over and placed her hands on her knees. “Jordan, you’ll never believe what just happened to me.” She proceeded to describe the scene above.
Fortunately, this story has a happy ending. Marcy fell off of her bed and cut her knee. Yes, there was a lot of blood…
