But I know I didn’t love school for school’s sake. I had never really been what people call an ‘academic’ person, nor did I see myself becoming one. Instead, I took pleasure in the fact...

We would be in each other’s lives again. No, he hadn’t been the best father, but he was my father, and we loved each other. We needed each other. Though he’d disappointed me countless times...

… In our family, if you said the words ‘I feel,’ they better be followed with ‘hungry’ or ‘cold’. Because we didn’t get personal, that’s just how it was.