before my family did.
“You’re pale,” he said after class one rainy Thursday while students packed up around us. “And you’ve been standing at the back for three weeks.”
“I’m fine.”
He took off his glasses. “Celestine, that is not an answer. That is a reflex.”
So I told him enough. Not all of it. Just that my scoliosis had progressed and that I had an orthopedic continue reading …