My Family Told Me Not to Show Up to the Baby Shower—So I Sent a Helicopter Instead

to be less so Amber could be more.”

It was the most honest thing she’d ever said to me.

“I’m sorry,” my mother continued. “For the text. For uninviting you. For fifteen years of making you feel like you weren’t enough. You’re enough, Claire. You’ve always been enough. We just couldn’t see it.”

“Because you didn’t want to,” I repeated.

“Because we were continue reading …