~Delia~I had been staying at my parents' house for almost two weeks now, ever since Katia decided she had the right to throw me out of what was still, as far as I was concerned, my house.Two weeks of sleeping in my childhood bedroom, the same walls I had spent my teenage years desperate to escape, the same window that looked out over the same narrow strip of garden my mother had never once managed to keep alive through a full summer. Two weeks of eating breakfast across from my father, who mostly ignored me, and my mother, who mostly hovered, neither of them quite sure how to talk to a grown daughter who had shown up on their doorstep with three suitcases and no explanation that made any sense.I woke up angry that morning, the way I had woken up angry every morning for two weeks, and I walked into the kitchen already talking before I had even reached the table."Mother," I said. "I am done playing nice."Mama looked up from her tea."Dad," I said, turning to my father, who was sit
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