My family turned my failure into a public joke, so I waited until they realized the joke was on them.

your future wife.” Then Emily noticed the one reaction that made her stomach drop.

Her former boyfriend, Daniel, had pressed “like.”

Dozens of comments followed. People mocked her weight. Her failed interviews. Her panic attacks. Her student loans. The years she spent sleeping beneath the yellow curtains she picked out at twelve years old. People she continue reading …