A Different Life in A Second Chance To Get It Right

Thirty years disappear

Ronald Bagliere’s A Second Chance To Get It Right begins with a sixty-year-old architect who has pursued professional status at his family’s expense. Divorced and broke, he encounters a truck on the highway and wakes in a past that no longer matches the one he remembers.

He and a woman he dated in college are thirty years younger. There is also a six-year-old son he does not recall having. The apparent opportunity to begin again arrives with responsibilities already in place, rather than an empty future waiting for him to design.

An unfamiliar version of himself

His home, career, friends, and skills differ from those in his former life. He knows some things but cannot account for others. The people around him may understand this version of his history better than he does.

That imbalance gives the second-chance premise its particular difficulty. He cannot judge his new circumstances only by what he remembers wanting before. He must also find out what he has done in this life and what he may have concealed from people close to him.

The risk of repeating old choices

Readers interested in redemption through an altered timeline have a clear dilemma to follow. A younger body and different circumstances do not answer whether he can become a more attentive partner or parent. The possibility of repeating his mistakes remains part of the question.