After A Holiday Dinner Snub, I Chose To Walk Away

I was thirty-two years old. I had a promotion, real friends, and an apartment with a view. I had seventy-two thousand reasons to never go back.

And for the first time since I could remember, when I looked in the mirror, I saw someone worth protecting.

I saw someone who finally chose herself.

And that was worth more than any gift they could have given continue reading …