My Dad Filmed Me on Thanksgiving and Posted It Online Then My Sister Tried to Take Money From My Account

had consumed everything. I bought textbooks new instead of used, a small luxury that felt like rebellion. I bought a stethoscope, even though I wasn’t a nurse yet, because holding it made the future feel something other than theoretical.

In the lab, I was paired with a woman named Marisol who was around my age and wore her hair in a tight bun and had continue reading …