My Classmates Teased Me for Being a Pastor’s Daughter Until My Graduation Speech Changed Everything

anything. If my dad knew I owned a phone. The questions were not questions. They were the shape of a joke, and I was the punchline, and the joke never got old for the people telling it even when it felt very old to me.

I brought those afternoons home with me the way you bring mud inside on your boots, inadvertently, leaving evidence of where you had continue reading …