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An ellipsis opens up possibilities.

The ellipsis was first used in a 1588 English translation of a Roman play. Adding those dots of punctuation to show a gap in a sentence can mark the transition from an absolute finality into a future option. An ellipsis also means an additional new challenge, which you may want to end with a period. Letting your process of transition continue, however, allows you to keep “fighting, working, trying.” 

A daughter of East Asian parents in Kenya used this as a mantra. She studied every day, scored the highest on a National Exam and won a scholarship to a posh boarding school before her father called asking her to come home before he died. In just a short time, she found hereself in London, then married off to a man she’d met once and, ultimately, living in a Toronto suburb.  She held to the idea that she didn’t know her new culture“…yet.” Because she viewed changes as beginnings instead of endings, she could remain stronger internally.

An MIT study found that even the hint of having an opportunity or door close makes that opportunity more attractive...