The Weight of Grahams
piercing her eyes and staring over at me for initiating the conversation in the first place,
“I’ve been saving for a moment like this, to be able to come back to where all of our hell began and ended. To come back and show all these bastards that we have arrived, to show my mother is no longer a victim of prostitution, drugs, and countless nights of abuse. My big sister that I look up to didn’t fall flat on her face, but she rose from rape and abuse from a person who back then we thought was a giant monster that came creeping into our bedroom at night. That hell yes we're all eating and have gained healthy weight.”
Mama cut in obviously annoyed by Isa’s dignified speech,
“Oh, and you think a
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