“The kid wants to hear my survival story, in exchange for his, and I’m just like… Is it that obvious that I am a survivor of something, too? Like… I thought I was fixed.” My mother paused a bit before saying, “First of all, Caprice, being fixed isn’t real. You can overcome, you can grow beyond the past, but trauma cannot be undone, sweetheart. Second, even if being fixed was real, you still wouldn’t be fixed.”
