At My Divorce Hearing I Had Nothing Until The Doors Opened

the most real person he had ever met. He told me the careful, protected way I moved through the world was beautiful to him. He told me he had been waiting his whole life for someone who didn’t want anything from him.

I believed all of it.

I believed it because I had been trained by twenty-five years of not being loved into a hunger that I mistook for continue reading …