Ask anyone who’s ever been online what “lol” means, and you’ll get a pretty clear-cut answer. It seems like that should be the end of the story, since “lol” is literally an acronym for “laughing...

I’m lucky. My parents are the quintessential image perfect human beings. Perfection entails the lack of mistakes. Mistakes entail apologies. My entire life has been devoid of either things from them...