The Groom’s Father Recognized Me While I Was Clearing Dishes At My Sister’s Engagement Party

precise: there is grief. There is a version of a mother I wanted that I will not have, and the space where she might have been is not empty exactly but it is different from what I imagined it would be. The grief is real. It is just not confused anymore with obligation, and those two things spent so long wound together inside me that separating them continue reading …