I know I am not the first woman to ask this, but how can I be both damaged and loveable? How do I become the protagonist of a story?

The year my mom worked as a secretary at an apparel company in midtown, she would often come home in tears because she had mistakenly called her boss by another coworker's name. 'You know how it is,' my father said, 'they all look the same. It's not your mom's fault. There's just no telling them apart. Same high nose and deep-set eyes.'

As a child, I would go days without speaking, and then suddenly I would scream until everyone was looking at me.

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