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

show you, and then you held the frame steady for fourteen years and arranged everyone else around it.”

“That’s not fair.”

“Marcus,” I said, with the specific patience of a woman who has spent fourteen years being called an extra in her own family, “I’m going to say something to you, and I want you to actually hear it rather than managing it.”

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