“I Came Home Early to Find My Parents Packing My Life Away Without Telling Me”

watching steam curl upward like a question mark dissolving into air. Then I nodded, feeling something settle in my chest that felt like resolve.

“I’m taking it,” I said, and the words felt like exhaling after years of holding my breath.

We went back to my parents’ house that afternoon with Alicia as backup. She met us outside in her SUV, dressed like continue reading …