When I first read this part of the book, I did not quite understand the meaning of it, but looking back on it, I find that it does indeed seem like she must lose one life to gain another. In order for her to pursue her new lifestyle and phase in her life, she could not bouse back and forth from her old life to her new life. How could she grow and learn if she kept falling back on her old habits? The expression ‘when one door closes, another opens’ is there to make people look on the bright side. In other words, when you fail at something, it only gives you another opportunity to succeed in…