She Said I Couldn’t Hold The Baby Because Of “Germs” — The Real Reason Broke My Heart

hurt to leave. You heal, if that is even the right word, by building something beside it — something real enough and sturdy enough that the hurt becomes one part of the landscape rather than the whole of it.

Months passed in the way that months pass after life reorganizes itself around a new reality. My apartment — I had found a place of my own, smaller continue reading …