Pizza Girl

by Jean Kyoung Frazier

“People will always love telling you how you’re supposed to be feeling and it will always make you feel less than when you don’t feel it.

“I’ll tell you what I wish someone told me when I was eighteen—it never goes away.” “What is ‘it,’ exactly?” “All of it, any of it, just it.”

started laughing along with him, and then he stopped, stood up, and said, “Okay, I want to be alone now.”

Me

“I think some people are just born broken. I think about life as one big Laundromat and some people just have one little bag to do—it’ll only take them a quick cycle to get through—but others, they have bags and bags of it, and it’s just so much that it’s overwhelming to even think about starting. Is there even enough laundry detergent to get everything clean?”