CNU-At my mother’s Sunday dinner, my sister offered to take my five-year-old daugh…

directly,” I said. Then stopped.

Because memory is slippery when you’ve spent years explaining it away.

“Actually… she would say things.”

“What kind of things?”

I looked toward Laya. She was drawing a purple house with no doors.

“Taryn once told her, ‘If you keep showing off, people won’t want you around.’ I told myself she was just being snippy.”

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