I still measure success in life by what the alternative might have been. Like in Sliding Doors or Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (if you’re Gen Zed).

child - childhood

When you're ready, just call out the position of the pieces and I'll give you a countermove.

In men’s clubs such celebrations were, though expiring, less uncommon; but either the natural shyness of the softer sex, or a sarcastic attitude on the part of male relatives, had denuded such women’s clubs as remained (if any other did) or this their glory and consummation.