He pulled up his sleeve and extended his arm toward me. Tracks marked the inside of his arm. He pulled up the other sleeve and swiped his fingers over the red places.
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“Went and knocked up some other woman. Got hisself some other kids. But we was his first childs. He just left. How do you do that?!”
But sometimes the mountain of failure and shame is just too big, too hard to climb, and the path is impossible to trek alone.
Joey’s stared at me, his eyes widening and filling with tears. He said, “I am in darkness. I’ve been in darkness my whole life. That can’t be what God is saying.”