I couldn't tell her. I couldn't tell anyone. As long as I didn't say it aloud, it wasn't real.

“Now, now," my father said. "Let's just get the bags."This was typical. My fathe…”

“How it seemed like you could see everything, but certain things were blocked ou…”

“Leaving was easy. It was everything else that was so damned hard.”

“I hadn't said goodbye. It had been easier, like always, to just disappear, spar…”