Walking out of the room was a relief and a sad reality because I was going to see more of it and keep up the smiling façade. I wanted to be nowhere close to that room. I took a lesson with me that very day that everything in life is but a choice and that I had chosen in my splendid performance of pledging to belong to continue attending to something I would have very much appreciated being absent to. To continue to force a smile where tear drops would easily fall like a dead leaf falling from the tree leaving a trail of tear stains that would demand my attention so much as to cover up and...