My Father Said I Was An Accident At A Family Barbecue Until I Responded

When we reached the master bedroom door he just pointed and asked if I was taking that room.

I said yes.

I think I am.

That night I sat at my mother’s vanity for the first time and looked at myself in the oval mirror she had looked into every morning for thirty years. I placed her letter against the glass where I could see it, and then I went outside continue reading …