I Won’t Continue down This Journey

After I became pregnant, I gave up the biology research project I had devoted years to.

Vanessa Basch, a student I had personally mentored, took over my work.

Ever since then, Vanessa began showing up at my home more and more often.

At the dinner table, she and my husband would become engrossed in heated discussions about the research data, barely acknowledging my presence.

That project had once been my life’s work. Yet there was not even room for me in the conversation.