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

in order to do its work.

The night my parents threw me out, they told me I would never make it without them.

What they failed to understand was that sometimes the best thing you can do for something that is growing is to remove it from the soil that is slowly poisoning it.

I survived the removal.

Then, slowly, stubbornly, without anyone’s permission or continue reading …