I Overheard My Dad Call Me a Burden So I Sold the House and Left

I let you, because I was easy to steer and I still wanted your approval and both of those things were my weakness, and now they’re not.

I turned my phone off and set it on the counter. Outside my window the river caught the late afternoon light and scattered it into something that moved. I watched it for a long time.

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