My Father Called Me A Parasite In Court Until My Lawyer Placed A Sealed Envelope On The Bench

years making herself palatable to people who could never fully know her had, in one sealed document and one honest afternoon and one letter from the dead, finally been given permission to take up the full amount of space she had always actually occupied.

My mother had known the dimensions.

She had simply been waiting for a room big enough to say so.

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