My Parents Took the $22,000 Hawaii Trip I Paid For

make us close.

But it made us possible.

Possibility is not a small thing.

Three years after the Hawaii trip I paid for and was excluded from, Savannah invited me to her first student exhibition.

The event was held in a converted warehouse near her campus. Brick walls, high ceilings, exposed beams, students in black clothing standing beside models they continue reading …