MY SISTER ANNOUNCED SHE WAS PREGNANT

never met.

She let me. She didn’t say anything. I could hear her breathing on the line, slow and a little wet, and a clock ticking somewhere behind her.

When I was done she said, “I’d like you to come down here. I have the letter from your grandmother. I’d rather hand it to you than mail it. And I’d like to meet you once before I can’t.”

“Tomorrow,” I continue reading …