They Treated Me Like I Didn’t Belong Until the Seal on the Car Door Changed Everything

for the remaining four hours of the drive.

I kept them because they reminded me of what I had driven six hours to offer: the uncomplicated pride of a sister who wanted to be there. Not the director, not the credential, not the agents or the seal or any of the equipment of the institutional life I had built.

Just Georgina, with sunflowers, because Tyler continue reading …