UNMASKED

You were never broken. You were translated.For as long as you can remember, you have run a quiet arithmetic that other people seem to skip, where to put your eyes, how long to hold a sentence, when to laugh, how to soften your voice so it lands as warm and not as strange. You called it your personality. You called it trying harder. You did not have the word for it.The word is masking. And if you a...