Status Updates From The Last to Let Go

Pg. 22 “I was envious; I knew that even then. I thought he’d found a way to get out from under the weight of our family, found a way to be happy. It gave me hope that maybe one day I could too. But now I know he was never out from under anything, that weight was just building pressure, slowly crushing him, like it was crushing all of us. I just didn’t see it then, didn’t want to see it.”

Pg. 19 “Aaron was really smart. He just didn’t care about school, not the way I did. I was actually happy that he’d been held back because that meant we’d be together for an extra year…”