They were a little heavy, but maybe that was to be expected after three months away. Three months, five wishes. And she’d achieved four out of the five, which wasn’t bad going. The heaviness lifted for a second as the highlights of the last three months flashed through her mind and then it descended again. What had she been thinking? She might as well have written the list in a silver pen and decorated it with pink love hearts and butterflies, pinning it on her wall next to a lipstick-kiss-covered poster of a pre-pubescent boy band. Polly pulled the page out of her diary and, without allowing herself a second’s pause to reconsider, tore it into pieces. It was time to reposition her three-month sabbatical into something more appropriate for the new CEO of a company with a multimillion-pound turnover. She chewed on the end of her pen for a moment and then started a new list. My Bucket List Travel to the Galapagos Islands See the Northern Lights Walk the Inca Trail Write a book See tigers in the wild There, two achieved, three to aspire to and all perfectly respectable.
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