I’Ve Supported Myself Since I Was 16, Never Took A Cent From My Parents — Worked Two Jobs, Skipped.. At sixteen I learned the only sound that never lies is steel on steel. Shipyard mornings, salt in the air, rust under my nails—schoolbooks open on a truck seat at night, a hurricane warning whispering through cracked windows. I told the river I’d build something that doesn’t fall, and then I spent years becoming the kind of woman who could. It was almost peaceful again the day my mother’s wine gl