“My dad owns every law firm in this province,” the lawyer’s daughter laughed after ramming her brand-new Tesla into my old Subaru

in the grocery store parking lot and asked why the lady was so mean—got to see that her father could stand up to powerful people without becoming one of them.

That, more than the new bumper on my Subaru, felt like the real repair.

The world is full of Victorias. People who’ve never heard no, never experienced consequences that couldn’t be bought away,continue reading …