She Took Me to the Hallway to Explain My “Place”

waitress kept refilling our coffee like she wanted to adopt us.

He’d told me, very quietly, “If you marry me, she will make you audition forever.”

I asked him why he was asking me to do it anyway.

He said, “Because I’m tired of people thinking my life belongs to the loudest person in the room.”

I married him three months later at a botanical garden outside continue reading …