one.
I had learned the difference.
Life became smaller and warmer afterward.
Exactly the direction I wanted.
The royalties from From Ashes gave me something I had never had in adulthood.
Room to breathe.
Not yachts.
Room.
I put money into accounts with Theo and Wyatt’s names on them so no child of mine would someday be told there wasn’t enough.
I kept the small house.
The good tree.
I kept writing.
Mornings now instead of three in the morning.
Still in pencil.
Still on yellow legal pads.
Some things
