41 Cross-roads

**"In life you have got to make tough decisions, occasionally unpopular decisions... Whatever it is, if it is the right move at the right time, you should be okay and prepared for it but you've got to be also willing to make errors; for if we don't make those harsh decisions today, our children are going to have to make much, much tougher decisions tomorrow…" Sean McDermott & Paul Ryan (brainyquote.com) **

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At the same time at the Marriage Committee Premises, the elders were gathered, and they all looked very grim unlike the times they had met to discuss the pairing of the young ones in the land.

Even the road to the premises which they had traversed may times in the past with glory had looked bleak and long.