Leah
I enrolled full time the semester after Bella was born. I had enough dual-credit classes to start ahead, and I took summer terms without a break. Jacob’s resources handled childcare in a way my budget never could have, and I went to class and did the readings and wrote the papers and graduated in the spring of Bella’s third year with a BSW.
Olivia was in the audience.
No one from the Lockhart or Fairfax families came because I had not told any of them. The invitation had felt like something I would have to defend, and I did not have the energy to defend it that week.
Olivia wore a ridiculous hat and cried.
Maggie came too, which I had not expected. She sat very upright in the folding chair and said, when I found them afterward, “Well done,” in the tone she used for things that ma
