At 18, I Fought to Keep My 7 Siblings Together — Then One Photo Exposed the Truth About Our Parents

late and Christmas gifts that were always slightly off — things chosen for a version of us that existed in her imagination rather than in reality. She had attended family gatherings with a quality of careful distance, as if proximity to seven noisy children might be contagious. She had never, to my knowledge, babysat any of us. She did not know Tommy’s continue reading …