
You’re tired of having red eyes.
You’re tired of crying, too; tired of an empty soul, runny nose, and dry mouth but you know there are more tears inside you and they need to come out. Whoever said that big girls don’t cry needs to know that that’s not true: as in the new book “Welcome to My Breakdown” by Benilde Little, sometimes crying is only the beginning.
For many years, Clara Little liked to say that she knew her last child would be a girl. She predicted it, and it happened—perhaps through force of will because, says her daughter, Clara was that kind of person: self-reliant and strong.