Chapter 17: The Tweak Room
The One Who Leaves—when you sense the cracks, but don’t yet have the language or safety to name the break
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We stepped out of the casino doors and into an oven. The kind of heat that felt like it would burn your insides if you breathed in the air. Mom hardly noticed it.
We walked past the lines of taxi cabs sitting bumper to bumper at red lights, past the dancing water in front of the Bell…