“But…Why can’t we get it?” I whined, and not for the first time. “Everybody on the whole planet has internet now!” I was 18 years old. A teenage girl living in a broken home, in a broken trailer, in a town called Broken, Tennessee. My whole life was broken and Daddy wasn’t helping at all.
On the phone, Step-Mom seemed different from her usual self. She sounded withdrawn, distracted. She had always been really perky, lively. People said that Sue, my sister, had gotten Step-Mom’s personality. It’s why she was so popular, why she was on the pep squad and almost every other after-school group. I’d never been nearly that