Chapter 17 S That Even Possible?

• The melancholy came. Whatever it was, Darren was paying a high price for all the choices he had had to make in the past.
• "What if Darren wasn't who he is? What would he want? What would his dreams be?" I asked.
• He lowered his eyes to a blank spot, took a deep breath, and finally smiled sideways without showing his teeth. "That Darren would give anything for a family, a home, a woman," he said. "That Darren would give anything to give his children the life he couldn't have. A good mother, a home full of love, comfort, peace.... And he would show them how cruel the world can be on the streets. The world that this version of me, this version of me, could not escape," he lamented.