“Mom. I was so scared.”
I smiled. “I know, baby.”
She hesitated, turning a scrap of fabric in her hands.
“Why weren’t you?”
I thought about my 13-year-old self—and that teacher.
“Because I’ve been scared of her before,” I said softly. “I just wasn’t anymore.”
Ava rested her head on my shoulder. I held her close.
Mrs. Mercer tried to define me once. She doesn’t get to define my daughter.
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