being an adult was all about not pointing out the obvious in situations where the obvious was too painful to take in.

maybe it wasn’t true that her family was chaotic and his family was proper, the biggest difference seemed to be the story, Hector’s family always had a story, a perfectly neat, organized story, with a beginning, middle and end, with a main character and an obstacle and an enemy, with a complicated Before and a happy After, and in their presence,