October 4, 2025
“I am already less whole. To lose her would mean the full loss of myself. Please, this is the safest place in all of Andoria. I have nowhere else to go.”
August 24, 2023
I tell her that her brown skin comes from her birth mommy who trusted me enough to adopt her. I remind her that she shares a culture with her auntie Shaunte who she loves.
August 13, 2023
I paced as my mind went back and forth from confident to full of doubt. It was only an hour but felt simultaneously like five minutes and like a year.