Not necessarily. Each of us has a journey, who are we to determine what the future holds. I have faith and hope that people are innately good. And at one point or another we come to the proverbial fork in the road. I am remind of a line in Robert Frost’s poem... “I took the path least traveled, and that has made all the difference.” Alledely, we become entirely new people every 10 years, on a DNA and cellular level, thusly who knows? As a person who has taken the path least traveled, I’ve taken forks of regret and forks of success. But ultimately it has been in my conviction of who I am and what I want to be that has forged my belief that the choices I made were right for me. Perhaps, it will be the same for Casey in the story. I leave his future open to the reader to surmise.
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