While my husband was away on a business trip, I bought a $2 lottery ticket on a whim and won $73 million. I was still shaking, waiting to surprise him, when he came home early the next morning with

But Mark had changed something even more important.

He showed me exactly how little my old life had been worth to the people who expected me to keep sacrificing for it.

Now I was free.

So Mark could keep the lesson.

I kept the future.