NOBODY FROM MY FAMILY CAME TO MY GRADUATION

me to ride a bike and held my hair when I had the flu and let a man build a wall around my whole life and stood behind it for twenty-three years – and I put the photograph down on the table in front of her.

“Tell me about her,” I said. “Right now. Everything you know. Because Tamsin held this for seven years and Garrett read it like a stranger and I’m continue reading …