Megan Foss

I guess if you look at it through the twisted lens through which men tend to view the world, you could make the argument that I started the conversation.Standing outside the recovery center during the smoke break we always took at the one-hour mark, I noticed that Mike, who ran the group, had stepped away to speak with Karen in private.

I gained so much weight sitting in jail that my street clothes didn’t fit when they released me. I had to wear county-issue jeans and a T-shirt on the airplane I took out of California's Bay area that last time.

It is much easier to point to the exact moment of her birth than it has been to realize the moment of her conception. That moment that is the last secret I’ve held to.

"The first time my old man went to prison I wrote him letters. I wrote Darryl long rambling letters that went on for 10 or 11 pages."