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In life, many people believe in free will, and many others believe in fate. I believe in both. For many decisions we make in life, there is no choosing. Simple everyday things, such as what your eating choices are if you eat in an organized setting like a Bryn Mawr dining hall, is something you can not choose. But sometimes it is something that matters more; for example, who you fall in love with. You can’t choose to love someone, it is something that happens; as some would say, it is fate. Yet, just like you can choose what to eat out of the pre-selected options you are given, you can choose what to do with what fate gives you. You can choose to marry or live with the one you fall in love with, or you can choose to do nothing about it, or even run in the opposite direction. Deanna did not choose for Bondo to come to the forest, she did not choose to become pregnant, and she did not choose his leaving. Those were acts of fate, and she was right that she had no choice in THOSE matters. But she did have a choice in others. She could have chosen to not talk to him the second time, she could have chosen not to sleep with him, and she could have chosen to ask him to stay  or leave when she wanted, not when he decided to. Everyone has a certain level of choice, but there are things that have to be left to serendipity.