They Threw Me Out on Graduation Night and Did Not Expect to See Me Again

need someone reliable. You’ve always been the capable one. Grace is still learning.”

Something cracked in me at those words. Not the painful kind of cracking, but the kind that happens when a wall gives way.

“So because I’m the one who can manage being overlooked,” I said slowly, “I’m the one who has to give up everything I earned.”

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