All I'd wanted for so long was for someone to explain
everything that had
happened to me in this same way. To label it neatly on a page: this leads to this
leads to this.

“Just because we don’t see eye to eye on everything doesn’t mean we can’t be clo…”

“I don't know," I said. "What else did you do for your first eighteen years?""Li…”

“I stood there for a moment, studying each of us, taking in Kirstens's smile, Wh…”

“My sister, who never understood most of the things I wanted her to, might have …”