Dismissed For Lacking A Degree, I Let My Life Speak For Itself – The Archivist

and the ones I let down.

You were one of the ones I let down, Emily. I know that now.

When we divorced, I told myself it was mutual, that we’d simply grown apart, that these things happen. But the truth was harder than that. The truth was I chose ambition over love. I chose success over partnership. I chose the life I thought I wanted over the person continue reading …