My Family Told My Daughter There Was No Room At Christmas While I Worked A Hospital Shift

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To understand why that letter mattered, you need to understand who I came from.

I don’t remember the first time I got called the weird one. Probably before I knew what the word meant. When I was six, I found a dead bird behind the garage and wanted to understand how it worked. My mother looked at me like I was speaking a foreign language.continue reading …