Less provocative perhaps, but it's something that's within my reach. Gauging the reaction of someone I know (my old self) to a set of known circumstances (my current life) involves much less wild speculation than weaving an alternate history of my life, which has been dictated by as many random incidents as it has general trends.

I doubt I would have believed it, and had I believed, it would have been upsetting and scary. Well, maybe not the bit about being married, but the rest.