My Family Turned Their Backs On Me On My Birthday Until I Took Everything Back

and brief and real.

Leaving a difficult family does not mean losing every branch of it. Sometimes you just have to find the ones that grew in healthier soil.

The birthday Clare threw for me was two weeks after the party, on the living room floor because my table only seats two. Josie brought candles shaped like the number thirty-four. Heather brought continue reading …