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

myself rather than requiring anyone to understand what I did in order to love me. I had wanted the sunflowers to be enough.

I heard them before I saw them, which was always how it worked. Not sounds exactly, just a change in the texture of the crowd, the slight redirecting of attention that happens when something is moving through a space with a specific continue reading …