Sublime

Each night I came in from the garage as late as possible, the evening hours with Harris and Sam being the most treacherous as I mimed my way through interactions that should have been second nature, a perpetual houseguest nervously trying to demonstrate how at ease she felt.

She saw herself as a charming street urchin, a pet for wealthy mothers.

I watched her walk into the store as unself-consciously as an animal in a nature documentary.