My Sister Got a New Car While I Got a Bus Pass but My 18th Birthday Changed Everything

That is a fairly intense thing to say over chamomile, I told her.

I am an intense woman.

She closed her notebook and we moved on to other subjects, but I carried that phrase home on the bus and turned it over for the rest of the week. No one can take it from you. I had three thousand two hundred dollars and a cracked-screen phone and a bookshelf that continue reading …