Commencement

Whatever the word is. Kids are amazing. The first few months, they’re just like these loaves of bread that shit. You’re wondering what the hell you got yourself into. But then, they turn into people. It’s the most incredible thing I’ve ever seen.”

If things had been different, she would be in Carolyn’s place right now. She didn’t want that sort of existence, but there was something so attractive about the security of feeling like you had stopped moving toward your life, and actually arrived.

The real sting in it came from the fact that the same women who had counseled her through her grief for four years at college wanted nothing to do with her joy.