My Sister Called Me a Leech at Thanksgiving Until a Colonel Stood Up and Changed the Room

and made you the loser. And you never fought back. You just took it. Why didn’t you ever say something?”

I looked out at the parking lot. Two soldiers walking past in ACUs, laughing.

“Because I didn’t want to win, Amanda. I just wanted a sister.”

She broke. I let her. I did not tell her it was okay, because it was not okay yet, and pretending otherwise continue reading …