If you live long enough, maybe you'll have enough lives you did live not to care about the ones you didn't.

I'll ask my Aunt Ella at her 105th birthday party next month, she'll know.

So many variations of the lives she has lived.

​She's not slowing down.

​So many more ahead.

I have more years behind than ahead; what will I do with whatever time is left to me?

I don't focus on what isn't. I look to what might be. Anticipation of what will come is always better than regretting what is no more.

The lives of Raymond, Shelly, Asian, and all the other visitors to Other Worlds Coffee have ended.

They now exist in the multiverse, visiting lives they would have lived had they made different choices.

​I look to what might be. 

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Your choices put you where you are today. Where will you choose to be tomorrow?
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You meet a stranger who tells you you've been dead for 46 years. What would you say to him?

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Imagine yourself in Raymond's situation.

​You live alone in downtown Seattle. You're not happy. You'd just like a place to have a quiet cup of coffee.

You end up at Other World's Coffee near the Seattle docks. You meet a stranger you call "Asian." He engages with you, and you lose track of time and place.

He asks, "How far do you want to go, Ray?"

How would you answer him? 

It won't look for you. You must look for it.

You have an infinite number of unlived lives. Which one would you choose?

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This woman walking among boulders and rocks is a metaphor for life.

​She must be careful where she steps if she is to have any chance of reaching the horizon. 

The decisions we make in life determine the only life we will live among an infinite number of lives we would have lived had we made different choices.

Raymond, Shelly, Asian, and the others chose to undo past mistakes. 

What 'boulders' would you avoid to live a different life?

I didn't decide to be born, and when I was, others made decisions for me until I was old enough to make my own. Even then, what I decided often left me subject to what others decided, much of which affected me directly.

It's the same with you.

We all have an infinite number of lives we would have lived had we made different choices in the past, which is the essence of the Unlived Lives Trilogy. 

You can only imagine what your life would have been like, but you can experience the lives of Raymond, Shelly, Asian, and others as they visit the lives they would have lived had they made different choices in the past.  

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I included the video in this post in an ad on Facebook and Instagram this past October. Book sales were okay, but not nearly as strong as before.

I've since learned that Meta changed the algorithm it uses to provide an audience for advertisers. Now, instead of placing emphasis on the audience I select, the algorithm weights that lower, and instead, uses the words and images in the ads to define an audience it believes will be more interested in my books. 

It didn't work, and I stopped all Facebook/Instagram advertising. If I am to start again, I need to second-guess Meta's algorithm, which second-guesses me, and I need your help to do that.

​Prior to this change, I created Unlived ads based on interactions with people, including many of you reading this now. I know who my customer is; the algorithm believes it knows better.

Question for you.

The attached video portrays the dark side of the Unlived Lives stories. Who do you think would be inclined to click the link in the ad after seeing this video? Who would not?

You can comment here, or, if you prefer, directly at [email protected]. Thanks in advance.

Raymond, Shelly, and Asian are living lives
​they would have lived had they made different choices.

​Where would you be now?

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