The-Lucky-List-Rachael-Lippincott

She’s the first person I feel like I can talk to about my mom, because she understands without being
too close. Without there being so much shared grief, like with my dad and Nina, that it’s suffocating.
Blake doesn’t just want to make me feel better, like my friends do, and she doesn’t need me to share
her grief. And something about that helps me feel like I’m not so completely frozen.
A couple of weeks ago, when Kiera was leaving for camp and everything was so broken, it felt
almost like the last straw. Like I was at the end of my rope.
When I heard Johnny and Blake were moving to Huckabee and we were going to bingo, I never
would have guessed this would happen.
But… I feel like she’s got me back in the game. And for the first time in a long time, I feel ready to
play.