Why I Chose Him
Dear Abitha
If you're reading this letter it's because I'm gone.
I want to finally answer the question that's stood between us for so long. I'm sorry I never had the courage to explain, but you deserve to know why your brother had a chance to escape Earth and you didn’t. I write this in the hope that you'll forgive me.
"The p***y is sweeter than the tit." That's what your Yaya said to me once, or I think she did. I never did learn much Greek. But it sounds like something a mother would say to her future daughter-in-law, don't you think? Certainly something Yaya would say to me. And whether it was really an old Greek saying like your dad said or just something Yaya made up, I don't know. But I can't deny her words crossed my mind when I was making my decision about which
