Catch up with Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4 of Vanessa Davis’s column.
Read Part 6 here.
Vanessa Davis is the author of the collections Spaniel Rageand Make Me a Woman. She is one of the Daily’s correspondents.
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