My Sister Got a New Car While I Got a Bus Pass but My 18th Birthday Changed Everything

with the practiced repetition of someone who has learned that the statement becomes more functional if you say it often enough, whether or not it becomes true.

Two years later, Paige turned sixteen in March, and the party my mother organized had twenty-five guests and a three-tier cake from the real bakery on Main Street, not the grocery store, with continue reading …