@summeryue0 Posting this is brave, honest and useful. Three things in short supply, these days. Don't let the haters dissuade you from doing this in the future. Thank you.
That fiction turned into a long post on @Nextdoor, one that sought validation from others in the community and put my family in the digital spotlight under a manufactured story.
The issue started with a neighbor inventing the idea that our teenagers were “parking maliciously” on a public street — something perfectly legal and entirely ordinary.