A 13 Year Old’s Call for Help in the Middle of the Night Sparked a Divide No One Expected

hit somewhere close to the bone because it was too near my own fear to dismiss.

“Maybe home is also the place where people finally learned how to treat us right,” I said.

She looked at me for a long moment.

“Do you want to move?”

I thought about the star curtain and the yellow lamp and Mrs. Holloway’s voice coming through the thin walls at odd hours and continue reading …