What Rhonda Y. Williams taught me about forgiveness, expectation, and the quiet power of letting people be who they are. I want to tell you about a conversation I had with my aunt Marion when I was a teenager. I remember sitting across from her, running through a grievance about what someone had done to me, or hadn't done — that I believed they should have. How they'd let me down. How they hadn't shown up the way I needed. How unfair it all was. And she looked at me and said,