The Night My Mother Said She Wished I Had Never Been Born

been given many times before.

I stood up. “You need to leave,” I said. “Now. Or I’ll call security.”

He told me I would regret this. That family was all you had in the world.

“Then I guess I don’t have much,” I said.

He left. I finished my sandwich. I went back to my desk and spent the afternoon coordinating logistics for three vendors across two time continue reading …