i make no apologies

Dear E,

You know how broke I am. But today, I took my earbuds out of my ears and stopped to talk to a Planned Parenthood fundraiser who waved to me. She was standing in the rain with a clipboard. I told her I knew everything she was about to tell me, so we just chatted instead.

I told her I can’t be a member and pay $30 a month, and that I can’t do $15/mo. Instead, I gave a one time gift of $52, symbolic of 52 years of birth control.

The reason I’m telling you this is because you and I are those girls who hold clipboards in the rain. We’re the girls who stop to talk to girls who hold clipboards in the rain, even when we’re broke.

Love,

B

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