I Came Home From Work and Found My Baby in a Condition I Will Never Forget – The Archivist

measure. This was an erasure.

My father looked at me with the calm of a man watching a transaction rather than his daughter. “You’re unstable right now,” he said. “You’ve made reckless choices. The trust needs protection.”

“From who?”

My mother moved closer and lowered her voice into a register that was trying to approximate comfort and missing it entirely.continue reading …