Ybon was the one who suggested calling the wait something else. Yeah, like what? Maybe, she said, you could call it life.

We all have a blind spot and it's shaped exactly like us.

I never wanted to be away from the family. Intuitively, I knew how easily distances could harden and become permanent.

I sat down next to her. Took her hand. This can work, I said. All we have to do is try.

Out of nowhere you said, I love you. For whatever it's worth.

It was like being at the bottom of an ocean, she said. There was no light and a whole ocean crushing down on you. But most people had gotten so used to it they thought it normal, they forgot even that there was a world above.

We're accepted as long as we conform to what we are expected to be, and I'm sure that's not any different for anyone else.