Fernanda Ramirez’s Reviews > Adelaide > Status Update

It was important to recognize your privilege, yes. To show gratitude, to count your blessings. But it was also important to acknowledge and accept your pain, to understand that no matter how large or small your problems, your losses, your wounds - they are yours. And you’re allowed to feel them, the hardest loss will always be your own

She cried when she was happy and when she was sad and when the world get like it was all too much and her face was on fire and the only way to cool it down was to cry cry cry cry cry. It often felt selfish and irrational. She knew she was so lucky, so blessed. That there was no reason to cry. It didn’t matter; she would cry anyway

Adelaide would never be defined by Rory Hughes. He did not construct her character; she did that herself. But to say this night did not transform her life would be fallacious.