My Parents Left Me in the ICU and Flew to Cancun Until I Saw the Same Name on the Visitor Log Every Night

send money home unless it is my choice, genuinely my choice, untangled from guilt or the old arithmetic of approval. I sleep eight hours when I can. I keep food in my refrigerator that I bought for myself. These sound like small things. They are not small things. They are, in my experience, exactly the size of the life you build when you finally stop continue reading …