"...but she would not run. She would face it." With regrets or not behind her, she would face it."

"In spite of the horrors, there were indeed things she did not regret; things she did not regret choosing against, and things she did not regret accepting.

Still, there was no escaping that the long story short of this tragedy is that she went from a good man with bad habits, to a bad man with good habits."