The Tide Turns
Jo turns twenty-five. Laurie comes home married to Amy. The shock is that her happiness is genuine. The childhood pairing everyone had already cast is gone, and something adult remains. Then Bhaer appears, smitten and untheatrical. Jo has to say goodbye to the story she had been using as a map, including the story in which she would stay the household's central weather forever.
Key Insight
The life you get is often a revision of the life you were rehearsing in private. If you treat the revision as theft, you will miss the person standing in the actual doorway. Letting go of the expected plot is sometimes the only way the real one can start speaking.
