I Paid For The Whole Family Vacation Until My Son Said I Was Not Invited

at that table, and when we said them aloud, they became lighter, which is the specific alchemy of the named thing.

Each evening we lit a candle beside James’s photograph. Each woman said one thing she wished someone had told her when she was thirty.

I see you.

You’re allowed to rest.

You don’t have to earn love.

Your story matters.

You are not a burden.

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