Tomorrow, I would face my parents not as the dutiful daughter desperate for approval, but as Tempest Navarro, best-selling author, college senior, and a woman who was finally ready to take up exactly as much space in the world as she deserved. For the first time in my life, I wasn’t going to make myself smaller to fit someone else’s expectations. I was going to stand tall in the fullness of who I was, and that felt like the most revolutionary act of all.
