“Stay Home — It’ll Be Easier.” My Parents Celebrated My Twin’s 25th Birthday And Left Me Out

25th, Harper. My parents on either side of her, my aunts, my cousins, my dad’s mother—the full constellation of family that had always surrounded the two of us on this day, arranged now around only one of us as if the other had never been.

The caption read: Surrounded by everyone I love.

I wasn’t tagged. I wasn’t mentioned. In the comments, my aunt wrote continue reading …