The War Within
Language: en
Three years after breaking up with my childhood sweetheart, my mother cooked his favorite meal: hairy crab. "Lily is coming over today. Don't cause a scene with her." Lily was the poor student my mother adored. Caleb was the boy I had loved for ten years. Seeing me sit silently in my wheelchair, my mother raised her voice, trying to mask her guilt: "Lily changed your college application back then for your own good. But becoming a war correspondent was your own choice. You can't blame others." I just smiled and said calmly: "Mm." "I can't reverse the past, but I am moving forward,…