Is that true, that I don’t have a family so I don’t know how to sacrifice? Is that what all this is about, why I’m so desperate right now? What I have, I realize suddenly, is myself. Am I really all alone? I draw myself up just so I won’t start crying. “If family is a bunch of people who get to control you and tell you how to make a living and how to raise your kid and when to eat and when to sleep, then I’m glad I don’t have one. I always thought family was supposed to be the people who love you and want the best for you because it’s what you want. If you ask me, by that definition, family is
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