Someone Else's Story Saved Mine (And Then I Wrote My Own)

I think fiction might be the most important thing humans have ever invented and I am including fire and antibiotics in that statement. That’s probably an exaggeration. It’s definitely an exaggeration. But I believe it more than I should and I’m not going to walk it back. Here’s what I mean. There are things that happen to us — grief, failure, heartbreak, the slow grinding realization that the life you thought you were building isn’t the one you’re actually living — that are almost impossible...