My Sister Arrived At My Wedding Wearing A White Bridal Gown

because she was “sensitive.” When she keyed an ex-boyfriend’s truck at twenty-three, he paid for the paint. When she told our cousins I was trying to sell Mom’s jewelry, which was a lie from hell, he asked me to “let it die down.”

Things don’t die down. People bury them alive and then wonder why the yard won’t grow.

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