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

in their plates.

I looked at mine. The dinner is my gift, I said.

Brenda tilted her head. That is it?

Mom inserted herself before the silence could do more damage. We are keeping it simple this year. Audrey has never been about big gifts. She is very low-maintenance.

But Paige got a car for her sixteenth, Brenda said. She was not being cruel. She was being continue reading …