At Christmas My Sister Told Everyone Something Until I Changed Everything

which had always served the same purpose. Twenty-three people who had known me my entire life, and not one of them said: that is a cruel thing to say. Not one of them looked at me and said: you matter.

I had spent thirty-two years at the edge of every family photograph. Thirty-two years of being the quiet one, the forgettable one, the one who did something continue reading …