My Sister Called Me Cheap Over Her Kids’ Christmas List Until I Arrived With 12 Giant Boxes

slash four hundred.” I matched eighteen on his birthday because he kept his side.

At the hospital, I am different too. I say, “I’m off now,” and leave instead of staying two extra hours to fix someone else’s schedule. I go to therapy. I buy better coffee. Lucky the plant got a new pot.

My mother still sighs sometimes and tells stories where she is the continue reading …