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

team room staring at a signature line. Amanda lying awake counting the ways she had made me small.

And I thought about Amanda in her mother’s kitchen on Easter, holding her son, looking at me with something I had waited my whole life to see.

I’m proud of you.

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