My Father Told My Daughter She Was Not Invited on the Family Trip and My Husband Said Nothing So I Walked Away

history until it became usable against me again. But Lily was not asking to erase what happened. She was asking whether we still needed to carry it.

“Do you want to?” I said.

She nodded.

So we walked to the kitchen trash can and dropped it in on top of coffee grounds and a paper towel. The blue and yellow and pink loops collapsed into themselves. Lily continue reading …