*Olivia*

One month later

In elementary school, we used to have a motivational poster on the walls of the principal's office. It was of a line of cartoon birds sitting on a telephone wire, except one of the birds wasn’t a bird at all.

It was a fish. All the birds were happy and smiling, but the fish was not. The birds avoided the fish like the plague.

The poster said, “Just because you’re a fish, doesn’t mean you can’t hang with the ...