bad advice when needing nobody is the only life she considers respectable.”
That sentence stayed with me.
Vivian had survived a difficult divorce when Lauren was fourteen.
She raised two daughters while building an impressive career in financial services.
She worked constantly.
Advanced.
Provided.
Eventually became an executive.
Even after formal retirement, she consulted for major financial firms.
She was proud of being self-made.
And, as far as we knew, she had every right to be.
Somewhere along the way, though, independence stopped being something Vivian valued and became something
