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May 14, 2017 Real life Takes You to the Dentist By Regina Frances Carey ©2017 As a teenage girl, thoughts of a beautiful life take over.  Watching old movies with glamorous women and handsome, dashing men invade your thoughts so much that you become a creature of dreams.  You want romance. You expect romance.  You expect your life to be a continuous romantic encounter that will never end.  Then, reality hits like a sucker-punch to the jaw. As an older woman, I often reflect back on my life and wonder what I could have done to change it.  Should I have dated more than I did, which was very little?  Should I have not been afraid to get hurt, which is why I didn’t date much.  Should I have gone to college earlier than I did?  These are some of the questions that I ask myself.  Then, I understand that no matter how I may have done things differently, it still would not have changed some things, such as the reality of life....