You only stayed in a life for ever if you couldn’t imagine a better one,
and yet, paradoxically, the more lives you tried the easier it became to think of something better,
as the imagination broadened a bit more with every new life she sampled.
So, in time, and with Mrs Elm’s assistance, Nora took lots of books from the shelves,
and ended up having a taste of lots of different lives in her search for the right one.
She learned that undoing regrets was really a way of making wishes come true.
There was almost any life she was living in one universe, after all.
In one life she had quite a solitary time in Paris, and taught English at a college in Montparnasse
and cycled by the Seine and read lots of books on park benches.
In another, she was a yoga teacher with the neck mobility of an owl.
In one life she had kept up swimming but had never tried to pursue the Olympics. She just did it for fun.
In that life she was a lifeguard in the beach resort of Sitges, near Barcelona, was fluent in both Catalan and Spanish,
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