My sister and i graduated from college together bu…

campus while the sun was still a suggestion on the horizon. My day began at 3:30 in the morning. The alarm on my phone was a jarring clinical beep that sliced through the few hours of shallow sleep I managed to steal. I would roll out of my thrift store sheets, the air in my tiny rented room always smelling of old wood and desperation.

By 4:00, I was continue reading …