My Father Tried to Force Me to Sell the House Until Police Walked In and Said My Rank Out Loud

in her rocker in the house she had left me, was that those were not the same things. Strength you build yourself. Hardness gets built into you by wounds you don’t look at.

I pulled out the last sealed letter she had ever sent, the one I had kept unread in the back of a drawer for two years, saving it for when I thought I needed it most.

Naomi, if they continue reading …