"Quicksand"

Before there was a "him," there was a granddaddy — the man who armored a three-year-old with ADHD against a toxic world before she ever knew she'd need it. In this letter, Mandy goes back to twenty-three, to the door she ran through, to the two children she left behind, and to the slow, undramatic sink into a relationship that felt like solid ground right up until it wasn't. This is the one about…