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

flat fields, and I thought about the six hours I had already driven and the six I had in front of me and the sunflowers in a bag on the backseat that I had stopped to buy at a flower stand outside Cleveland because Tyler had always liked them better than roses.

My brother was graduating from Northwestern’s law school that afternoon. I had not missed continue reading …