You know too much

Who was I to reject a gift from God?

“How did you get so smart?”

The reason I’m smart is because I had to become incredibly attuned, well read, and articulate if I had any hope of surviving, and later translating, all of the incomprehensible conditions of my life, conditions which are rarely spoken aloud—incest, child rape, living under your rapist’s control for a decade, forced to treat h…