My voice trembles, my hands are clammy, digging deep because I am not just convincing Toya that I need to do this, but convincing myself that I am strong enough to follow Eve and find her on my own. It may not have been this deep when I decided to go after her, but sitting here the last hour, these thoughts, these feelings came from a place I have buried for a long time.
“If I don’t go now, if I let my flaw keep me caged, then I will never know who I am without her, without all of you. I will never become anything more than what I’m protected from. And I can’t live like that. Not anymore. …. If I stay here, and I let my sister drift away, then my life is over, and we both know it. Eve, for all her flaws, always tried to stop me from disappearing into oblivion and from making choices to pl
