drunkard's grave, dead of hepatic cirrhosis," it

informed me virtuously as it returned my ID card. I

glared as I pushed the glass across the table.

5. She had been an angel for coming up on 10 years and

in all that time nobody had told her this was possible.
The fact that it could ever happen never even entered
her mind. Yet there she stood, with the undeniable
evidence sitting on the ground before her. Angels
could lose their wings.

6. You're going to make a choice today that will have a

direct impact on where you are five years from now.
The truth is, you'll make choice like that every day of
your life. The problem is that on most days, you won't
know the choice you make will have such a huge
impact on your life in the future. So if you want to end
up in a certain place in the future, you need to be
careful of the choices you make today.

7. The young man wanted a role model. He looked long

and hard in his youth, but that role model never
materialized. His only choice was to embrace all the
people in his life he didn't want to be like.