Good for You

by Camille Pagán

After all, taking charge without taking credit was how she’d gotten ahead in the first place.

When you weren’t always worrying about how to pay for your life, you could actually take a beat to enjoy it.

“That’s what I told myself all those years, that I was okay with it being just me against the world. But as my sponsor keeps reminding me, you always have a choice. We all have someone who will be there for us if we’d only ask them. So, my girl,” she said, her steely gray eyes trained on Aly, “don’t choose to be alone, okay?”