Cancer

The things you carry that were never formally handed down are often the most persistent parts of who you are. A way of folding towels, a particular silence when someone asks for money, the exact tone your voice takes when you are trying not to worry someone else. These small inheritances move through families like underground rivers, surfacing in your kitchen on a Tuesday morning when you realize your hands are moving exactly like your grandmother's did. What you received without choosing it has become what you give without meaning to, and the people around you are learning from you in the same quiet way you learned.