What Things Cost?

I want to connect that to the the title of the anthology what things cost because it's not about money is what I'm trying to say right so I mean also I guess but you know what things cost beyond money. So what things cost or what I've seen in my life as it relates to cost is that often we pay with our lives and that word is expansively defined not just my literal life but my identity my history. It's really unfair that something as insignificant as money could determine a quality of life that's always been really strange to me even as a child. Even now sometimes it's hard to know how people see me or people who look like me when not very long ago