MY SISTER ANNOUNCED SHE WAS PREGNANT

over at twenty-eight and rebuilt from a regional freight outfit into something that did ninety million a year in revenue.

My mother had been there. My father. Melissa. Two cousins I barely knew.

My mother got a brooch.

Melissa got a set of china she had specifically asked for, which she sold within a month.

I got everything else.

At the time, I thought continue reading …