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

Audrey, do you have your driver’s license? I told her yes. She nodded. Good, she said, and moved on to something else. I filed this away the way you file something that does not quite make sense yet but carries a quality that tells you it will.

Three months before my eighteenth birthday, the acceptance letter arrived from Westfield College. Small liberal continue reading …