My sister pushed me down the stairs at 8 months pregnant. “Apologize for making her angry,” mom demanded as I bled. “You know how stressed she is with her divorce.” I apologized. Then I made one phone call. They had no idea what I would do next…

football replay with the volume too low to count as interest and too high to count as background. A glass clinking somewhere in the kitchen. A refrigerator hum. Her own breath dragging in and out of her throat like it had to fight through broken glass.

And above her, from the top of the stairs, her sister’s voice.

“Oh my God,” Khloe said.

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