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

in the way a conversation gets redirected, in who gets the reserved seat and who gets told there are exact counts. Changing those habits required noticing them first, and then deciding, again and again, to do something different.

But the noticing had started. And sometimes the noticing is the whole first year.

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