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

leave me alone.”

He called me selfish. A traitor. Said I was going to make him lose Brooklyn.

“You might lose Brooklyn,” I said, “because she’s realizing what kind of family you come from. That is not my responsibility.”

I hung up and blocked the number and sat in the quiet of my apartment with Lily’s hand finding mine across the couch cushion.

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