God she was an epic baller of a person too. An amazing personal story and she herself was a deep well of insight and compassionate wisdom. It comes through in most everything she wrote or said.

Its currently sitting in my library app, but I'm bracing myself because of how hard the left hand if darkness broke me

I read that story like 20 years ago and I still think about it all the time.

i don't know if it was intentional, but one of Expedition 33's endings gave me vibes of that story