Finally, my family posted a $25,000 bond, and they used a lot of connection over that.

Because I don't have any access to an attorney, and I feel like if they killed me and buried me somewhere, who is going to find me?

I have a connection at IUP between family and friends and the head coach is a very impressive guy.

He felt lighter than he had in weeks, and he realized that the monster he had been running from wasn’t really a monster after all. It was simply that place in the heart that holds the measure of your history, the joy and the grief, the laughter and the tears, the magic and the wonder; all the ingredients that add up to the story of a life well lived.

Eva: I don't want any tea.

Lil: Don’t make me have it on my own.

Family was even a bigger word than I imagined, wide and without limitations, if you allowed it, defying easy definition. You had family that was supposed to be family and wasn't, family that wasn't family but was, halves becoming whole, wholes splitting into two; it was possible to lack whole, honest love and connection from family in lead roles, yet to be filled to abundance by the unexpected supporting players.