Everyone she had talked to since the first of the year had been under the impression that something big was coming. Something positively Earth-shaking and life-changing. She wasn't sure if it was the naïveté of those who didn't really understand how the world worked or if a plan was already being put into motion to tear down what she'd spent so many years helping to build up. Regardless of which it was, she longed to discover a reason to hope for change.