I gave my seat to a stranger and cried the whole train ride
She got on two stops after me, maybe eight months pregnant, alone, weighed down with grocery bags in both hands and nowhere obvious to put any of it down. The train was full enough that nobody near her seemed to notice, or maybe they noticed and made the same calculation I almost made — that someone else would do it, that it wasn’t specifically their job. I stood up before I’d really decided to. It wasn’t a big thing. People…

