My Mom Said If I Couldn’t Afford the Flight I Should Stay Behind Then I Saw Four Business Class Tickets on My Card

you as a resource. Stay behind from manipulation dressed as family obligation. Stay behind from the exhausting work of proving yourself to people who have already decided what you are.

And in staying behind from all of that, move forward into everything else.

The flight attendant offered champagne. I smiled and asked for sparkling water.

Not because I continue reading …