At My Purple Heart Ceremony, My Stepmother Swung a Folding Chair Into My Arm—Then My Father Looked Down Instead of Protecting Me
Sometimes they are both in different relationships.
Charles deserved compassion for what Gertrude did to him.
I deserved accountability for what he allowed her to do to me.
Those truths did not cancel each other.
General Campbell checked his watch.
“I have a meeting.”
“Shocking.”
He stood.