I Opened a .mil Email the Night My Family Buried Me Alive

the moon.

“You?” she said. “Rebecca, you hate being dirty.”

I did not hate being dirty. I hated being underestimated by a woman who paid people to edge her lawn with nail scissors.

Dad was worse.

“If you want discipline,” he said, “you can get that working for the company. If you want to prove a point, save it.”

But I kept pushing.

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