I Walked Into A Jewelry Shop To Sell My Mother’s Necklace Until The Jeweler Turned Pale

represented, the man who bore that name and died before he knew she was pregnant, the family she had kept me from and who had kept her out, the story she had compressed into keep this, no matter what, one day it will explain everything, delivered to a twelve-year-old who had no context for any of it and who would carry the mystery of that sentence continue reading …