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

who had kept accounts and secrets and schedules, who had balanced other people’s ledgers late into the night while her own future sat waiting. She stayed there like a ghost. I walked out into the rain without her.

The door shut behind me with a finality that I felt in my teeth.

Survive first, I thought. Rise later.

The first years were not graceful.

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