My Sister-in-Law Said Women Like Me Never Outrank Anyone Then a Marine General Recognized Me at the Wedding

ring. “You sound awful,” she said immediately.

“Thanks.”

“You crying?”

“No.” Pause. “Okay, a little.”

Dana sighed softly. I could hear a television in the background and her husband washing dishes.

“You don’t owe people a performance, Riley.”

I leaned my head against the wall. “No,” I said quietly. “But I think I owe myself the truth.”

After we hung up, I continue reading …