Inside the jacket
After my parents stripped me of the last cent I had, stolen in the name of buying my brother a house, and my boyfriend—no, the man I once thought would stand by me forever—betrayed me with an affair, I left everything behind.
With nothing but the weight of my own despair, I found myself in Asheville, a city that promised nothing but the possibility of something new.
This was where my journey began, and I swore to myself: I wouldn’t just survive. I would flourish.
