Nobody Has to Bleed to Be Heard

It also never stopped being owed.

Both of those are true at once and my tidy sentence cannot hold them.

And Chloe is not blood and never was, and she showed up every single day for seven years, and she also kept a shoebox in a closet because she was frightened, and both of those are true at once as well.

That is the actual inheritance in my family and it has nothing to do with money.

Nobody in it has ever been able to hold two things at the same time.

My mother could not hold I love this grandchild and I am being used.