A Better Woman

travel stories and "boyfriend-not-boyfriend"s

This week, in an effort to write a travel story, I reread my old journals.

I’m a very sentimental person. Everyone in my family is very sentimental—we like heirlooms, we like to save things. We pass down our jewelry and our clothes and our furniture because we want them to be loved long after we’re gone. Under the bed in my childhood room at my dad’s ho…