Public Shame, Private Triumph

loud at Bella Ha

across the room, laughin

s-chef, our l

od friend who always looked like he

y, of stealing his v

y mother' s medical bills across th

," he s

I loved, walked o

ublicly hinting my "moment of

ght I wa

t harder tha

ick mother collapsing, in desperate ne

imed to love me, so easi

ly shamed, then abandon me when

, but trapped

money for my mother' s treatment-if I disappe

, my pride

later, a p

en, sent me security

g: Julian planting

my priority th

thought i

were

t getting