“There is no future, there is only now,” Sarah announced to Brian and me. I glanced upward and read the Chinese lettering sprawled across the frayed cloth canopy adorned with dragons. “I told you this place was exotic.” Her words were excited, but I couldn’t help the eye roll and the familiar sneer that stretched across my face. When I was young, the road ahead was an adventure, full of twists and turns that could lead anywhere. But now? Decades later, I knew better. Life ha...
