At 5 A.M., Security Called To Say My Sister Had Movers—So I Told Them To Let Her In

of it all. This role I had never asked for.

Then I would wipe my face, finish the assignments, and wake up to do it again.

In some ways, becoming an agent later felt like a natural extension of that part of me. I was good at carrying burdens quietly, at watching instead of speaking, at seeing the lines people drew around themselves and the ones they continue reading …