Lead Re-write
Rewrite of lead for “What a Big Mistake Can Teach You” by Stacey Colino in Cosmopolitan’s September 2010.
Making mistakes is a quintessential part of growing into the adult you will one day become. Many people often argue that a man’s mistake is not judged as harshly as that of a woman. If you get lucky, though, your mistake doesn’t cause you to suffer major consequences. That was not the case for the women profiled in this article. The mistakes described not only had consequences, in each case, the error in judgement sent her life into a tailspin. Each cautionary tale though has a happy ending. These women prove that it is possible to pick up the pieces of a shattered life and move on.