They Said I Would Always Come Last—So I Stepped Away And Let Them Feel It

their mortgages, their insurance premiums, their car notes, their debts. I’d covered Kesha’s wedding, my father’s business loans, my mother’s medical bills. I’d done it hoping that one day the balance sheet would show a profit of love, that the investment would yield returns in the form of appreciation, respect, basic human decency.

I was wrong. And continue reading …