She didn’t.

So she became the person who told her own children exactly that, every day, for the rest of their lives.

Chapter 4 — From a Kitchen Table

The years that followed were the hardest of my life, and I would not trade one of them.

I raised Elias and Tristan and Juniper on almost nothing, at first.

I took in alterations.

I designed window displays for shops that could pay a little.