I Toasted, Walked Out, and Let Them Laugh. By Monday, My Father Had Proof He Was Wrong.

the one who “never quite lived up to their potential” according to people who never bothered to see what your potential was.

If any of that resonates, I want to tell you something my grandmother once told me, words I taped above my desk in that awful Allston apartment:

You are not what they say you are.

You never were.

You are every night you stayed up continue reading …