Status Updates From Wide Awake Now

“I hadn’t lost sight of the fact that I loved him, but I wasn’t feeling any of it now. Or I was only feeling that part of love that can be misshaped so easily into anger and sadness and pain.”

This is one of the most heartbreakingly accurate descriptions of what love looks like when it meets volatility.

JIMMY, SQUARE UP! AIN’T NO WAY YOU TREATED DUNCAN LIKE THAT!

Aaaaaand we see some of Jimmy’s true colors…Honestly, if I were a parent, I wouldn’t let my children to another state alone to protest either.

“I tried and prayed. Then I tried some more and prayed some more. But then I realized, in order for us to be so far apart, she must have been praying in the opposite direction.”

NOOO, don't bully the poor baby for having a freeze response :(

Well, well, well, we have Mr. "Power Trip", and MR. POWER TRIPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

On a more serious note, I think this book needs to be required reading, and everything within it is the road that we have been unfortunately been travelling down.

Hearing the MC describe coming to school and celebrating the day after the election is so heartbreaking because it’s what SHOULD have been our reality.