My Parents Took My Sister To Italy Until They Came Home To An Empty House

at Lily, and it was a smile I recognized but had never received, the kind that said “you are loved unconditionally, you are valued, you are enough.”

“Lily deserves it after everything she’s been through,” my mother continued.

Everything she had been through.

It was their favorite phrase. The recent breakup with a boyfriend who had lasted three months.continue reading …