But, darn it, that can't be the right path to my number.

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Mind you, I don't feel alone on my downwardly mobile path.

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At 150 pounds over my "ideal" weight, I knew I couldn't continue on this path.

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My husband got knocked off his motorbike when a woman who wasn't looking crossed his path.

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Yet as the smiling faces of girls in white dresses I hadn't seen since high school stared at me from my computer screen, I couldn't help but feel I was suddenly looking at the path I hadn't taken.

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