After Setting a Boundary With My Family, I Learned Something Important at the Bank

it in several places, most significantly at the bottom, on the signature line.

A signature that looked like mine.

I am sixty-two years old and I have been signing my name since I was seven, and I know my signature the way I know my handwriting — not because I study it, but because it is an extension of me, an automatic and individual gesture that contains continue reading …