I Let My Mother Think She’d Secured My Sister’s Wedding

and forty at the same time.

Kelsey did better than I expected.

No excuses. No “if you felt hurt.” No blaming my mother, though she could’ve and maybe should’ve. She said the word stole. She cried halfway through it and kept going. Mark apologized too, plain and ugly.

Emma listened.

Then she asked one question.

“Did you think I wouldn’t notice?”

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