Today's Unused Novel Opener

"If I had my life to do over again, I wouldn't change a thing."

If I had a nickel for every time I've heard someone speak this lie, well, ...I'd have a lot of nickels. Not that money would do me any good where I am now. But who wouldn't do things differently if they could? The time you closed the car door on your hand, backed over your dog, got caught doing something you'd rather not be caught doing; every lifetime must have hundreds of painful, embarrassing, hurtful moments that we'd love to take back.

Me? I'd be happy for a single day. Today, actually. Because if I had today to do all over again, I might still be alive.