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

that they did not want you to be alone.

I know it because it happened to me.

And I know now, in the way you know things that have been confirmed by the actual experience of them rather than just the idea, that the version of me who had been running on four hours of sleep and vending machine crackers and the relentless fuel of other people’s needs was continue reading …