Daddy's Bargain
I pressed my back against the stall wall and looked at the ceiling and did the embarrassing, inevitable thing I'd been avoiding for twenty minutes.
I cried. Properly. The ugly kind, the kind that didn't care about dignity or mascara or the fact that I was in an airport bathroom in New York and two women outside were having a conversation about whether JFK or LaGuardia was worse.
"LaGuardia," I thought, tears running down my face. "Obviously LaGuardia. This is not a debate."
It helped, slightly, to have an opinion about something.
After a while — I don't know how long — I got up. Washed my face. Looked at myself in the mirror. Red eyes, damp cheeks, the expression of someone who'd been thorou