By [Your Name]
She flips the second card. “Present. You’re healing wrong. You think healing is forgetting. It’s not. It’s learning to carry the wound without bleeding on everyone.” tarot mercedes dantes
Mercedes Dantes—born Marcus Dupré to a Haitian father and a NOLA Creole mother—is not your typical tarot reader. For one, she doesn’t own a crystal ball. For another, she learned to read cards not in a coven, but in a cell at San Quentin, where she served nine years for a robbery she now calls “a spectacularly stupid act of youthful hunger.” By [Your Name] She flips the second card
She leans back. “That’ll be twenty dollars. Or the name of the first person who broke your heart.” tarot mercedes dantes