The Woman Who Stayed
Adaeze sat with that for a moment.
"Yes," she said. "She's me. She's also every woman who has been where I was. Both things are true at the same time. I think the most honest writing usually contains that — the specific personal thing that is also somehow universal. The kitchen counter that is both my kitchen counter and every kitchen counter."
"If you could go back," Funke said carefully, "and speak to that woman. The one in the kitchen at the beginning, before she found the messages, before she knew the shape of what she was inside — what would you say to her?"