This is really beautiful, Alexis. It made me cry big, honest tears. I needed to cry.

This is just so familiar... it resonates so closely to my own former life over there. I write a lot about things like this, but this was truly, truly beautiful. Thank you so much - please write more. And more than anything, my sad, suffocating friend - hang in there. We are going to make it, and things are going to be okay. Also, you taught me the word Brontides.

Billie