There are moments that don’t quite land all at once. This is one of those. It’s like piecing together a puzzle slowly, over time and then one day, stepping back and realizing something has come together in a way you couldn’t fully see while you were in it. Imagine this: what began as an idea, my BFF Deb and I were going to co-write by sharing our experiences of leaving the systems we once knew—evolved. Life took each of our focus and energies onto different paths, but our fri