cnu-At my fortieth birthday party, my sister swung a baseball bat into…

not an invitation to update me. Brooklyn struggled, then stabilized. My parents raised her with the same blind loyalty that had damaged Vanessa in the first place. Whether Brooklyn outgrew it, I do not know.

I hope she does.

That is the most generosity I can offer from a distance.

Vanessa wrote once.

The letter came through the prison system, forwarded continue reading …