(Anna asked, Does that matter? What counts is the result, not the route by which one reaches the result. It's often all a matter of luck. Ulf pondered this. The role of luck in human affairs had always intrigued him. So much of what we did was influenced by factors that were beyond our control-the vagaries of others, sequences of events that we initiated in ignorance of where they would lead, chance meetings that led to the making of a decision that would change our life.)