Chapter 4: Damaged Goods, Codependency, and Broken Wings
"I know um... it's just that my truth is that I am damaged goods, and this has really messed things up for me. And I think I need some time with it." - David Rose, Schitt's Creek, S04EP07 I met Lee at a youth group church retreat where we both signed up as counselors. She was engaging, bubbly and far less stuffy than the churchgoers I was accustomed to. I must have stood out from the other Korean American college guys in my pink bandana print t-shirt (I can't stress enough the cultural impact of Cam'Ron and Dipset in the early 2000's) and cane that I used due to my knee tendonitis. Lee grew up at that church and hadn't really been back since she left for college; I was the newbie who had only recently started attending. The thing about "black sheep": in many settings you're the only one there. But when two or more are gathered, be prepared for anything. We set next to each other on the bus to UC Santa Barbara, where the retreat was to...