This is Where We Talk Things Out

by Caitlin Marceau

And while Sylvie had a bad habit of extending poison ivy disguised as olive branches, Miller had a worse habit of accepting them.

She knows it’s Sylvie’s way of moving past her grief, but it only serves to wake Miller's own pain back up.

And, quite honestly, I think it says a lot about someone if they can’t love another person unconditionally unless that person’s their offspring. It’s narcissistic.”

Wait until he hears about this, young lady, he’s going to be so disappointed in you. SO DISAPPOINTED!”

Her mother either fails to understand or chooses not to: it’s not that Miller is argumentative, she just stopped blindly agreeing with her mother; she hasn’t been ignoring her mother, she's just trying to live her own life; she didn’t cut her mother out, she just set boundaries.

“But now, here, we can be a family again. Just the three of us. Together forever.”

I feel like the third person is her father