Second Bloom
In the second life, forty-five is a landmark in the middle of something still happening, and the day after it is the first day of the rest of the second life with the full view from the landmark available.
She runs and thinks about the view.
The view from forty-five, as she has been anticipating it, is this: she can see the whole distance of the second life — the lecture hall, the ROTC, New York, the commission, the file, the practice, the foundation, the book — and she can also see, for the first time from this height, the shape of what she is building toward in the years ahead.
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