I Refused to Give My Card to His Sister and Breakfast Turned Into Something I Didn’t Expect

was going through a difficult period and I needed to understand what it meant to support people who were struggling. I walked past him, picked up my keys from the counter, and drove to urgent care.

The nurse who cleaned and photographed my burns was a woman named Janet, who had the calm efficiency of someone who had done this more times than she should continue reading …