The Door I Kept Going Back To

After twenty years away, I’m back in the city, catching up with Diamond—the friend who knows me well enough to tell me the truth.

At the kitchen table, I take her back to the summer of ’06 and the choices that began a pattern in my life. It starts with Marco, but this story is also about what I allowed, what I learned, and why I kept going back.

The Door I Kept Going Back To is the beginning of my story of love, heartbreak, accountability, and growth