My voice grows cold once more, and the tears I’ve held back for so long, from hating myself in pictures, from all the crushes who picked Palmer, from getting dumped, from all the mean girls who hated seeing me with Finn, from the feelings of inadequacy as a woman… I let them flow… So I can finally let them go. Because now I know the source of all this insecurity in my heart. It was because I wasn’t just ignoring the red flags. I was wrapped in the warning flag for twenty goddamn years in the form of my best friend.
