people became much smaller very quickly.
Olivia apologized months later.
Not for calling me after the news broke.
For never calling before it.
“I knew they treated you differently,” she said. “I just liked being the daughter they were proud to display.”
That sentence hurt.
It also sounded true.
I did not completely cut off my family.
But I stopped financing emergencies.
I stopped explaining my career.
And I stopped attending gatherings where affection depended on how useful or impressive I appeared.
A year later, Northstar opened a rehabilitation center
