'Why Does Healing Have to Be So Lonely?'

It doesn't.

Two Calla Lilies Together (1923) by Georgia O’Keeffe

Dear Polly,

I've been wanting to write this letter for a while now, so I figured I'd sit down and actually do it. I'm not even sure how to begin, so I'm just going to dive straight in and hope you can derive some logic from this emotional spiel of mine.

I'm 24, but I feel about 40. From the moment I exit…