#idelleedit

Idelle, how would you feel if the one man you thought would never betray you did? If he purchased for himself a future through that betrayal? If you were told by a world full of men that that betrayal confirmed for them that they were right to see you as a monster to be shunned?

Despite the world reminding her every day of her life that she’s undeserving of being given anything by it, that she was unworthy of what little she’d managed to take from it, despite all of that, she never believed a word of it. That woman has been fighting the whole goddamn world since the day she war born.

Despite the world reminding her every day of her life that she’s undeserving of being given anything by it, that she was unworthy of what little she’d managed to take from it...

I held out hope from the beginning, a fantasy, that despite what we’d heard of her, she was learning, growing, and that someday, she’d seek me out, and a woman who reminded me of myself when I was younger would arrive in Boston, and I’d walk the Charles with her and teach her the things a woman can do in this world.