Did this explain things? The way she just said yes, and didn’t think it through for a second, until she was here crying in a corner?
“Is exercise really as worthwhile as we think?”
—Stephen Dubner, Freakonomics, Ep:150
Shira started at a slow pace, she liked to pick it up slowly. Danielle had recommended the path when Shira had told her she wanted to take up running again, then Ephraim told her that his mother often walked there. Funny how she actually could have asked her mother-in-law for something and she would have gotten an answer.
The trail was busy: a few bikers ahead of her, some walkers behind her, a few couples laughing on benches. Watching their easy banter made her look again, then wince. But most people were by themselves, for once she wasn’t the only one with no one.
Shira picked up her pace, it felt good to move. She tapped play and turned on DeeDee Dvorkus. Today’s topic was parenting teens.
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