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

his golf game. Mom mentioned a sale at the department store. Lily launched into a story about her friend who had gotten engaged, her words tumbling over each other with the kind of unselfconscious enthusiasm that only those who had never been told to be quiet could possess.

I listened. I nodded at the right moments. I was a ghost at my own family’s continue reading …