“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”. Leo Tolstoy The opening line of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina is one of the most famous in literature. The Russian’s point was that there are myriad qualities that must exist for a family to be happy. And every unhappy family falls short in a different way, each as unique and lachrymose as the next. Two families may be equally despairing, but that despair will be rooted in a different tragedy each and every time. At the risk of contriving this insight to the point of contortion, I believe this wisdom to be equally applicable to the…