Maame

by Jessica George

Ultimately, you must either accept a person for who they are, how they behave, how they express themselves emotionally, and find a healthy way to live with them, or let them go entirely. Either way, you must release yourself from that responsibility.”

one of my problems is that I’m expecting perfection from ordinary people.

The sun gleams against his marble headstone and throws a strip of light onto my face. I laugh and look up to a patch of blue sky. “Subtle, Dad,” I tell him, squinting in the sun. “Really subtle.”