“Anyway, they were really supportive during the pregnancy and birth. And we’ve been co-parenting ever since. It sounds wildly cliché probably, but it changed me … like it didn’t make me better or anything, it just made me want to be better. But I also knew that I had to get properly clean. Like, if my body was going to be a halfway decent home for a growing fetus, and then if I was going to be a halfway decent parent, I couldn’t be doing coke and fucking around with pills or whatever … anyway, I guess that’s why I got sober.” Salomé smiled at Taiye. “That was the question, right?”

