“I think I used to. But then Allie died, and at the risk of sounding totally morbid, I think the person I was died with her. I’ve mostly put myself back together, but I’m different now. I’ve made a kind of uncomfortable peace with it. Sometimes I think that all my friends, and maybe even my family to some extent, are just waiting for me to turn back into who I was before, but I’ll never be that person again. I know they’re just trying to be there for me, show me they care, but I guess a lot of the time, I wonder if who I am now is enough.”
