I need to do this with one or two of my best friends, with a boy who can love and support me, or not at all. For whatever reason, although I consider myself a liberated woman, I cannt bring myself to scream without someone beside me. My reasoning? I think that I can’t go it alone because, if I break down, there will be no one there to catch me, but myself.

I bear the weight of so many, yet my own load is growing too cumbersome to bear alone. I keep on, yet.