The Woman Who Stayed
She hoped, standing at that window, that her brother would not waste what he had been given a second chance to build.
She had seen enough of the world, in her work and in her own life, to know that second chances were not infinite. That people who were given the grace of being seen through to the other side of their worst failures and chose, even then, to revert to old patterns, did not usually get a third opportunity. The world was, in her experience, more patient with first failures than with the failure to learn from them.
She hoped Emeka understood the stakes.