1 days before my wedding, dad called: “i’m not wal…

understood the value of exhausting manual labor, and loyal friends who had watched me survive the freezing winters in my unheated bindery. I saw my friend Clara standing near the aisle.

Clara is a ceramicist who helped me pack cardboard boxes when I finally moved out of my parents’ house ten years ago. She knew every detail of my family dynamic. She continue reading …