My daughter-in-law always hid her hands and back—until a beach trip revealed the truth she had been carrying all along.

enough to drink, she kept herself covered from neck to hands.

At first, I told myself it was a style choice.

By the end of the first summer, I knew it wasn’t.

People reveal themselves in what they avoid.

Emily never rolled up her sleeves.

Never reached too quickly for anything.

When she got nervous, she tucked her hands into the ends of her cuffs like a continue reading …