A Creeping Sense of Distance: Nastia’s Story

But I soon found that going to school wasn’t the hardest part. That came when I had to deal with the backlash of my (and my parents’) academic choices from a variety of different people.

My Father, An Enigma

“When I was in college and things started going haywire, he very clearly expected me to obey him, and very clearly believed that he was my male authority and that I was bound by God to submit to him. But was this perhaps simply the way he responded in his fear of losing me? How deeply did he actually hold those ideas?”