They Called Me A Nobody—Until Someone Said “Welcome Back, General”

this was a networking opportunity for her, not actually a family celebration. Until then, it was just us and a few officers from her unit. Young men and women in their dress uniforms, polite and curious, mostly focused on Melody like she was the sun they orbited around.

That was fine. I hadn’t come to be the center of anything. I’d come because she’d continue reading …