Some Times Destiny is a Seagull

Happily Ever Apart

Dust and Anna never saw each other again but both were very thankful for their time together.

Dust spent the rest of his life working on the potato farm. He became the McCarthy family's most trusted field hand and a true member of the family. He never married, but he was fine with that. Because although he never would have admitted it to Anna, he could never really envision himself as a married man. Dust never regretted leaving his life behind to live on the potato farm. And he always had an immense respect for seagulls. As he grew older he was known as The Seagull Man because everything he owned was somehow related to seagulls. He even would tell the town's kids that his spirit animal was a seagull. The town's kids loved Dust; they would always ask him to tell them stories. One day one of the kids asked him what the greatest lesson in life he had learned was. Dust thought for a second and replied: "Sometimes you think you know what you want, and then your life gets overturned by a seagull, and you realize that maybe you were just telling yourself that that's what you wanted because you didn't know there were other options." That was not the advice the kid was expecting, but it was advice that he would later in life understand.

Anna became so good at making taco shells that she had developed a way to make designs on the taco shells. People came from around the world to try her fancy taco shells, and Marco's Family Restaurant was so popular people had to get reservations. One day Anna came out of the closet, metaphorically and physically. She married Marco's sister, moved out, and adopted eight children. One night, one of her kids asked her what the best lesson she ever learned was. Anna replied immediately: "In this world, people come and go throughout our lifetimes, and sometimes we don't understand how they're connected to our fates, or where we're supposed to end up when all is said and done. When you've lived a life like mine, sometimes it takes a while to accept that some people aren't supposed to be in our lives forever. But, when all is said and done, everyone matters for their own reasons, and those you leave behind are never truly gone; they are a part of us, now and forever. I got where I am now because of the people who helped me, and became a part of my life, and to those people I owe the world."