Chapter 21: What We Were Missing
The One Who Leaves—Home was hunger in a thousand forms, in absence, in sugar, in silence, and wilting hope
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Summer was coming to an end and Grandma Fields came over to bring us new outfits for school. Holding up a pair of black corduroy overalls with Minnie Mouse on the front pocket, she measured them against me to see if they fit. I grabbed them from her and slid my legs into the soft fa…