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“You are many things, August Ryder, and some of those things aren’t great, I’ll be honest,” I said. “But a bad father isn’t one of them.”
And when I got older and started to think about the kind of life I wanted for myself, I thought of that inscription.
You might not like her, but at least she’s the devil you know. And she loves Riley.”
This woman was not about to lecture my six-year-old on what foods she should and shouldn’t have. “We don’t think any foods are good or bad,” I jumped in. This was something Cam was passionate about, and I was happy to support her in it. “It’s all just food.”
didn’t want Riley to grow up thinking she could be only one thing or that her only choices were things her parents or family were.
didn’t know until right now how nice it felt to be taken care of—how badly I craved it, to just relax and let go. But I didn’t know how I felt about the fact that Gus was the one who was granting me that.
I wondered whether I could taste the sun on her skin. Jesus, Gus. Do you think you’re a poet? Check yourself.