Her Own Making: A Family

pot roast once symbolized family, now

while my cousin Bethany feigned illness, subtly pre

arned opportunity because Bethany "wanted" it, swayed

fe of quiet desperation, watching my dreams handed to my ma

broken, and dying, while Michael

at flatlining heart monitor br

ime, it wa

emory; it was a

my voice clear and steady as a bell, shocking everyon

eigned sympathy replaced by immediat

calling me selfis

my decision was final, and walke

ation; it was a decla

lanned for me was o

Michael's texts, and applied to a

new beginning, and this tim