They Made Me Sleep in the Garage for Christmas Until the Truth Came Out

trying.

I could almost feel Lila’s eye roll across three states.

Fine. Suffer nobly. But don’t let them make you small in your own head. The rest is noise.

I held the phone and felt the particular tightness in my chest that I had learned to recognize as the specific kind of exhaustion that comes not from work but from being seen wrongly by people whose continue reading …