I Raised My Brother’s Daughters For Fifteen Years Until He Gave Me A Sealed Envelope

situation, about what he had found after their mother died, about the decision he had described in the letter and the reasoning behind it, such as it was. I did not soften the reasoning or editorialize it. I just told them what the letter said.

Jenny looked away at some point in the middle of it and did not look back for a while. Lyra leaned forward continue reading …