
Regrets? No. When something’s leeching off you — Best to cut it loose.

I consider it a step-up.
Her only reality became her new identity. Her instructor had walked her to a mirror. “Look in there, Lacey. You see that young woman? Everything you think you know about her isn’t so. Just forget her. Forget all about her. It’ll be rough for a while—you’ll feel like you are playing some kind of game, pretending. There’s an old Jerry Vale song that says it all. I can’t sing, but I do know the lyrics; they go like this:
Pretend you don’t see her at all… it’s too late for running… look somewhere above her… pretend you don’t see her at all…
That was when Lacey had chosen her new name, Alice Carroll, after Alice in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, by Lewis Carroll.
It fit her situation perfectly.