I Left Home With 200 Dollars After My Family Called Me Unstable Then My Sister Found My Name Online

of the two of us at my ninth birthday, the year before the Sunday school incident with Mrs. Halloran, the year before any of this had a shape yet. I don’t open it often. I don’t need to anymore, not the way I once did, back when it represented some unopened question about who I was allowed to become.

What I understand now, seven years and a lifetime continue reading …