You Did It This Time, Daisy May‪!‬

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     Meet Daisy-May Lynn, fifteen years old. Bright and motivated, starting goalie for her high school's soccer team. The kind of young woman who often hears, "You've got so much going for you!" The kind of young woman who  doesn't believe a word of it.

     In less than a week, Daisy will celebrate her sixteenth birthday. Before that can happen, she will have to make it through a long, lonely and torturous night that will tell her some important things about who she really is.

     If she can make it through the night, she's going to discover that she is wrong about a lot of things. If she can make it through the night, she will understand the importance of letting go of things you cannot control in order to find yourself.

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     But life is cruel. I used to tell Tim that I didn't care how my life turned out and that I wanted bad things to happen to me. He was always calm and reassuring no matter how many times I bitched this line at him.
     "You know..." he'd always say, "the thing about that is..." Usually he'd take a few sips of beer in between these words of reassurance, to build some tension. "...bad things are going to happen to you, whether you want them to or not. So wishing for it is pretty much a waste of energy." He had a point.