They Said I Would Ruin the Wedding So I Stayed Home and Watched What Happened Next

unfollowed my sister. Then my mother. My father. My cousins one by one. Each tap felt not like violence but like the setting down of a weight I had been carrying for so long it had become indistinguishable from my own body.

The darkness settled into my apartment and I did not turn on the lights for a long time.

Three days later I drove to Boulder.

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