Every cloud, I’ve always said, has its silver lining; everything happens in life for a reason. I realized then how much anger I’d been carrying around, how long it had been since I’d felt fully myself. I hadn’t felt so open in months, and I sensed that now was a good time to give that “impossible” prayer of mine a try. One month later, in May, I received the Gohonzon, exactly one month after my 30th birthday. Strangely enough, just one month later, I got a text from an ex I hadn’t heard from in years.