The Boutique Owner Told Me to Stay Quiet Before I Heard Something I Was Not Meant to Hear

was an asset to be used, and that watching it unfold in her own store had made her feel she had been given a second chance to do the thing she had not done the first time.

I told her she had done it well.

She said she was glad someone finally had.

I want to be clear about something before I finish telling this story. What I did was not clever or remarkable.continue reading …